By taking the time to acquire knowledge, you\u2019ll be ready for the opportunities life brings. If you are not prepared, they\u2019ll pass you by and go to others. God said, \u2018My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.\u2019<\/i> (Hosea 4:6 KJV) Observe: <\/p>\n
(1) Strategic thinking prepares you for the future.<\/i> None of us know what tomorrow will bring. \u2018Don\u2019t brag about your plans for tomorrow\u2014wait and see what happens.\u2019<\/i> (Proverbs 27:1 TLB) The only thing that\u2019s worse than the uncertainty of tomorrow is having no plan and strategy for your life. <\/p>\n
(2) Strategic thinking reduces the margin of error.<\/i> Whenever you shoot from the hip, you increase your margin of error. It\u2019s like a golfer stepping up to a ball and hitting it before lining up the shot. Misaligning a shot by a few degrees can send your ball a hundred metres off target. Strategic thinking lines up your actions with your objectives, just as lining up a shot in golf helps you to put the ball closer to the pin. The better you are aligned with your target, the better the odds that you will be going in the right direction. <\/p>\n
(3) Strategic thinking gives you influence with others.<\/i> One executive quipped, \u2018Our company has a short-range plan and a long-range plan. Our short-range plan is to stay afloat long enough to make it to our long-range plan.\u2019 That\u2019s hardly a strategy, yet it\u2019s the position some of us find ourselves in. The person with the plan is the one with the power. Whatever activity you\u2019re involved in, strategic thinking is essential to success. Talk to God about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By taking the time to acquire knowledge, you\u2019ll be ready for the opportunities life brings. If you are not prepared, they\u2019ll pass you by and go to others. God said, \u2018My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.\u2019 (Hosea 4:6 KJV) Observe: (1) Strategic thinking prepares you for the future. None of us know what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}