The words tactical, operational and strategic appear in just about every corporate communication.

In explaining what Strategic thinking/intelligence is, I want to  clarify the major difference between tactical, operational and strategic  intelligence.

As a start, we should note that all the words derive from a military, not business or leadership perspective.

Strategic intelligence represents a very important tool and the  discipline of providing continuous, useful intelligence about a  #competitor, #country or individuals.

Strategic thinking and #intelligence depends on historical and current  data mixed with creating hypothesis about future developments.

Needless to say, any intelligence collected, analysed and  disseminated to decision or policy makers also becomes the subject of  #counterintelligence and planning by competitors as well as being  influenced by events outside of their #control, such as the Covid19  pandemic.

For this reason, #strategic intelligence is more hypothesis than  #tactical or operational intelligence. Tactical thinking is more based on  current events (space, time and resources ) for immediate decision  making.

How does strategic intelligence and strategic thinking relate to “leaders”?

According to (Anon., n.d.), the word ‘Strategy’ comes name from the  Greek word strategos, the name of an Athenian general officer. This is  derived in turn from stratos, ‘an army’ and therefore, ‘I lead’. The  secondary meaning of this term being a board or council of ten Athenians  chosen annually to conduct their war department.

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