I just finished the Great Courses/Wondrium course Strategic Thinking Skills. You can find it here...
This covers a huge number of areas that I've been a student of most of my life. The benefit for me was how it tied so many things together. I would have loved to have this overview available to me when I was in my 20s.
Reading the reviews for this tells me that it's clearly not for everyone. This may be more telling than it's intended to be. Some of the reviews were astoundingly ignorant.
I started out being a bit put off by the instructor. Likely just his fashion sense. He appeared to be too much of a cookie-cutter MBA type. Not someone likely to generate a lot of respect in me. I rapidly got over this. He's an engaging speaker and an interesting guy. He might be fun to have a beer with in a more casual setting.
The course begins where it ought to with a history of military strategy. This is valuable not because the military should or should not be an interest, but because the military has been understanding, developing and applying strategic principles for a couple of millennia longer than business. It's a very solid starting point.
He then dives into a collection of flybys on various topics related to strategic thinking. He includes many examples of practices, both good and bad, and tools that can aid strategic thinking. It's a great overview with many, many topics that deserve closer inspection. It's not really a deep dive on anything, but it really frames up the topic area for further pursuit.
From the perspective of being later in life, it's tempting to say post-career but I think that's bad thinking, this is an inspiration that can immediately improve decision-making by providing both clarity and structure. Needless to say, I highly recommend it.
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