Challenges that may deny the benefits of strategic thinking

Have you ever engaged in critical thinking? Or thinking is like a torture for you as it is for many people? Here is a famous quotation from Luther Burbank, "Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people". Or you may be among those few who like to think but how frequently do you think is the real questio...n? George Bernard Shaw was quoted as saying, “Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once a week”...

The article discusses how critical thinking is hard and very few people are thinking and enjoying the benefits of it. The paper also addresses four challenges that deny organizations from enjoying the benefits of strategic thinking: over-depending on vision and failing to become realistic, trusting statistical analysis than intuition and critivity, cultures that glorify the past and shy away from talking about the future, and school systems that promote logical and systematic thinking that are the dominant functionalities of the left-brain than the right-brain that engages intuition, which is very important for strategic thinking that counts the future and the uncertainities attached with it.

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