CTL Strategic Thinking & Vision 5

Question 1

A team leader is preparing for a strategic planning retreat. Which tool BEST helps the team anticipate plausible futures to prepare for uncertainty?

Accepted Answer

Scenario planning

Answer

Scenario planning involves developing multiple plausible future stories to help teams prepare strategies that are robust under various conditions.

Question 2

Which of Porter's Five Forces would MOST concern a team leader whose organization faces a growing number of low-cost online competitors?

Accepted Answer

Threat of new entrants

Answer

A growing number of new low-cost competitors directly increases the threat of new entrants, one of Porter's Five Forces affecting industry profitability.

Question 3

A team leader wants to ensure the team's strategy is both bold and realistic. Which approach BEST achieves this balance?

Accepted Answer

Establishing a BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) paired with a clear near-term roadmap

Answer

A BHAG provides inspiration and long-term direction while a near-term roadmap ensures concrete, achievable steps guide execution.

Question 4

Strategic vision is MOST useful to a team when it is:

Accepted Answer

Inspiring and directional, guiding priorities without micro-managing actions

Answer

A vision guides directional thinking and priorities without prescribing every action, leaving room for team initiative and adaptability.

Question 5

A team leader observes that the organization has strong operational capabilities but a poorly defined strategy. According to strategic management principles, this creates risk because:

Accepted Answer

Efficiency without direction leads to doing the wrong things very well

Answer

Drucker's principle states that efficiency is doing things right, but effectiveness (strategy) is doing the right things—operational excellence without strategy can optimize the wrong activities.

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CTL Strategic Thinking & Vision 5