To excel in today's exacting world, organizations need to combine strategic planning and strategic thinking. Strategic planning is a formal activity carried out periodically by top managers, but it is vulnerable to change. Strategic thinking is an informal activity that occurs intermittently...

ch. 1. Decoding complexity by isolating form -- ch. 2. Point thinking and organizational persona -- ch. 3. Linear Thinking and organizational performance -- ch. 4. Angular thinking and organizational puzzle -- ch. 5. Triangular thinking and organizational pattern -- ch. 6. Strategic scaffolding...

Purpose – The author urges managers to pay more respect to the time‐honored tradition of sketching ideas on the back of an envelope or a napkin managers. It is a way to become more skilled at imaginatively using simple yet sophisticated cognitive tools. Design/methodology/approach – A...