Strategic Thinking

The Vietnam War was a battle that seems to have taught the American Military and Government officials a lot about cooperative working and strategic planning. Each American involved most likely has a different story to tell about the War from the ground soldiers all the way up to President Johnson. However, each participated in a mission driven cooperative work environment with many different thinking styles. These styles included strategic thinkers, tactical planners, and logisticians to name a few. Each thinking style plays a critical role in the development and progression in an organization like the armed forces in the Vietnam War. I would describe myself as a strategic thinker. “Strategic thinking focuses on finding and developing unique opportunities to create value by enabling a provocative and creative dialogue among people who can affect a company’s direction. It is the input to strategic planning—good strategic thinking uncovers potential opportunities for creating value and challenges assumptions about a company’s value proposition, so that when the plan is created, it targets these opportunities. Strategic thinking is a way of understanding the fundamental drivers of a business and rigorously (and playfully) challenging conventional thinking about them, in conversation with others.” (Center for Applied Research). Everyday as a Registered Nurse I need to strategically think for the wellbeing and safety of my patients. Even in my personal life, I tend to strategically think things through; the downfall to this is that I do tend to over think situations at times. Working in the intensive care unit there isn’t many people to delegate tasks to, but there is very many tasks delegated to me. When receiving a task, or order from a physician, I need to be able to fully think out if and when I should perform the order. Sometimes doctors make mistakes, so if I were too not think everything through, mistakes could occur at times. It is critical that doctors