Once upon a time, I thought I lacked strategic thinking, thanks to an early performance review at Google, where it was flagged as my “area of development,” which is corporate-speak for weakness. I found the concept of strategic thinking nebulous; what does it even mean? Being a dutiful problem solver, I sought help from someone who pointed out that instead of viewing this gap as a deficiency, I could approach strategic thinking as a buildable skill, which is how I was introdu

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