Strategic insight

Strategic insight - Callie Roos

1. This is what helps us to see in advance and interpret what is still to come.

2.??This is what happens in or during the battle/game/situation that asks for quick and often split-second decision-making.

3.??What we reflect on when it is all over.?

The zone of strategic insight is then to explore the following:

• See what nobody else is seeing (this is a gift) –?this has got nothing to do with the drinking of red bull.
• Stay calm and facilitate the ability to consider different alternatives.
• The ability to choose and lead from a sense of wholeness and pro-activeness where you dictate the space of breakthrough and then get everyone to focus on it
• The ability to go with your intuition and create a belief around the domain (intelligence) of possibility

My point.??Applying just the above or a combination would already give you alternative options from what happened in the past.??

In Conclusion.??

Generally speaking our leadership thinking in South Africa often goes back to the Second World War.??I say this with sadness.??This is not only true of some sports administrators, but also of many politicians, communities, and some business leaders.

Therefore my opinion in this article is not one of critique but one of understanding and if we as South Africans don’t learn the lessons soon we will keep on making the same mistake and pay the price for it.??Our nation will also become more and more demoralized simply because it does not have to be like this.??Our leaders are simply not good at reading the signs in a?proactive way where the outcomes are dictated by our ability to see the whole and then allow for the best possible input in the zone of creativity and innovation.

I guess what we are looking for is leaders that have the?mental frame of strategic mobility, agility, surprise, and instinct.??The inherent capacity to break through the traditional lines of defensive thinking where everything is based on high levels of adaptability, quick decision-making, trustworthiness, and ingeniousness.??All of this happens in the context of effective energy management as there is nothing to waste as?we become so good at doing that nothing will go wrong.??High levels of?self-confidence and self-reliance?are implied.

That is maybe why if we look for those to lead South Africa or our businesses into the future we will not have to look at experience only in the first?place.??I can think of many attributes more important than that. Things like?integrity, authenticity, inspiration, capacity for growth, understanding, meaning, knowledge about people, etc. In this context, I also want to believe that more decision-making authority should go back to those who are either playing the game or executing the task of managing the team.?

I do feel for the nation and its disappointment.?They do not deserve this.??We have so much potential in this country.??Many people can help in the process but for obvious reasons, we are not invited, and that I do not understand.??My take is that the leaders of the future need people who can assist and help to pull it off.??

In South Africa, this is what I have become for many business teams, a facilitator guide who can influence the outcome on a strategic level and pull it off. Maybe one day (my wish) we will become this for our politicians, community leaders, business leaders, and sports administrators.??We are the ones who do not care who gets the credit as long as we deliver on our goals and targets as promised. This is what the nation pays for and they have a right to get only the best on a higher strategic level of insight.