Why Should the Boss Listen to You?: The Seven Disciplines of the Trusted Strategic Advisor

7.3. The Virtues of a Strategist

To begin assessing your strategic capacity, you'll need to ask yourself critical questions about how you approach ideas, questions, opportunities, dangers, and challenges. This portion of the book will help you develop your own list of questions. Use these questions as tools to develop your personal behaviors. Systematically questioning yourself leads to a better understanding of why you choose to be strategic—in other words, what your intentions are for thinking and acting strategically. The result, if you organize it, tends to fall into specific behavior or intention categories I refer to as the virtues of the strategist. Virtues are principles and guidelines for your thinking, behavior, and recommendations. ...