Enterprise Thinking, is the concept of re-thinking the role and value of leadership within a business or organisation. It represents a new slant on what leaders should be doing every day. It's not based on getting people and leaders to do more. Rather, it teaches them how to be more.
Ultimately, you are responsible for making the kinds of decisions that will affect your business or organisation and your life both in the present and the future. Your decisions are rooted in your ability to think, which is not as simple as it seems. As Henry Ford once said, "Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it."
A Leader's Toolkit
That's why it's important to have the Enterprise Thinking resources you need to make your best decisions from one day to the next. A new book, “Paid to THINK” just released by David and Lorrie Goldsmith, teaches leaders and their teams how to strategise, plan, transform through projects and dramatically enhance their global awareness while outmaneuvering competition.
Just as enterprise integration and enterprise architecture are used by IT professionals to technicalogically integrate all the tentacles of organisations for greater efficiencies and better outcomes, think of
Every day, a leader constantly pulls for all four categories in the toolkit as s/he searches for ways to lead others and improve the business:
1. Learning: Acquiring new knowledge, enhancing global awareness, watching competition;
2. Strategising: Developing plans, creating new products/services, establishing alliances, leveraging technology;
3. Performing: Leading the charge, empowering others, innovating everywhere, selling continuously;
4. Forecasting: Forecasting the future.
Source: Paid to THINK by David and Lorrie Goldsmith (Hardcover $US21.72)
