This textbook delineates and defines strategic thinking as an advanced, conceptual cognitive capability, focusing on the nonlinear, divergent, a-rational and informal nature of strategic thinking. This unique and practical text is an original primer of how successful strategists learn to think strategically.

Part 1: How did we Get Here? 1. Chronology of Strategy 2. Contemporary Competing Views of Strategy 3. Global Sketches of Strategy Part 2: How do we Learn to Think Strategically? 4. What is Strategic Thinking? 5. Informal and Formal Learning Defined 6. Context and Learning Transfer as Factors in the Strategic Thinking Process 7. Three-Stage Model for Learning Strategic Thinking Part 3: How do we Get Started? 8. Framing as a Structural Process of Strategic Thinking 9. Learning Domains Used for Strategic Thinking Part 4: How do we Test the Foundation? 10. Role of Critical Dialogue in the Strategic Thinking Process 11. Role of Critical Inquiry in the Strategic Thinking Process Part 5: How do we "Know" This?: Intuition as an Outgrowth of Experience 12. Intuition as a Must-Have for Learning to Think Strategically 13. The Roles of Analysis and Intuition in Strategic Decision Making Part 6: What Role Does Culture Play? 14. The Role of Culture on Strategic Thinking 15. Debunking the Myth of the Chosen Few: Five Attributes Part 7: How to Become a Stronger Strategic Thinker? 16. Strengthen Strategic Thinking Through the Arts 17. Three Unconventional Approaches that Support Learning to Think Strategically Part 8: Where do we go from Here? 18. Where We've Come From and Where We Can Go: Some Suggestions