A sensemaking approach to strategy making: The role of the leader in times of ambiguity

IF 3.1 4区 管理学 Q2 BUSINESS
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Leaders experience high levels of ambiguity when successive waves of rapid change transform their markets. Meetings provide leaders with the most pervasive opportunity to address the implications of ambiguity. Sensemaking conversations generate a shared understanding that helps leaders and their team pierce through this ambiguity. The sharper perspectives and renewed mindsets developed through a disciplined and sustained sensemaking dialogue bring greater strategic clarity to a leadership team. Applying the tenets of sensemaking to a dynamic strategy making framework enables leadership teams to generate and test insights and assumptions, the prerequisite to generating the marketplace understanding that will lead to effective strategies. Through a thoughtful integration of sensemaking and strategy making, leaders are better able to focus on the critical change issues, ask questions that lead to insightful conversations, and manage inquiry and advocacy so that all members of the leadership team productively contribute to the dialogue. With the thoughtful combination of these two approaches, business teams can autonomously accelerate the development of winning strategies at times of ambiguity.

制定战略的感性方法:领导者在模糊时期的作用
当接连不断的快速变革浪潮改变市场时,领导者会经历高度的模糊性。会议为领导者提供了解决模糊性影响的最普遍机会。建立感性认识的对话会产生一种共同的理解,帮助领导者及其团队突破这种模糊性。通过严谨而持久的建立感觉对话,领导团队可以形成更敏锐的视角和更新的思维方式,从而提高战略清晰度。将感性认识的原则应用于动态战略制定框架,能使领导团队产生并检验洞察力和假设,这是产生市场认识的先决条件,从而制定出有效的战略。通过深思熟虑地将感性认识与战略制定结合起来,领导者能够更好地关注关键的变革问题,提出能够引发深刻对话的问题,并管理探究和宣传,从而使领导团队的所有成员都能为对话做出卓有成效的贡献。将这两种方法深思熟虑地结合在一起,企业团队就能在模棱两可的情况下自主加速制定制胜战略。
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CiteScore
4.60
自引率
5.00%
发文量
38
审稿时长
31 days
期刊介绍: Organizational Dynamics domain is primarily organizational behavior and development and secondarily, HRM and strategic management. The objective is to link leading-edge thought and research with management practice. Organizational Dynamics publishes articles that embody both theoretical and practical content, showing how research findings can help deal more effectively with the dynamics of organizational life.
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