A Review on Leader's Role in Creating A Culture that Encourages Strategic Thinking

Abstract

Strategic thinking has been a hot debate throughout the past decade. Thinking strategically, is a must for all managers in different organizations; these days lack of strategic thinking among managers is obvious. Strategic thinking provides important insights regarding logical decision making, role of power, policies, importance of change, … various work experiences can have special roles in order to develop strategic thinking ability. Among different organizational factors, organizational culture can play a vital role to limit or encourage; leaders, as people who play crucial roles regarding culture and strategic thinking process can maximize the relationship between organizational culture and strategic thinking process. Thus, the present study seeks to investigate the role of leaders as supports of the strategic thinking culture and collection of official training, developmental activities, … in order for self-upgrading; such activities can increase leaders’ skills to enhance strategic thinking ability of their employees.