Economic Thinking for Strategic Leaders

Abstract

Military senior leaders today operate within increasingly volatile environments characterized by greater information-processing demands and a need to solve ill-defined, novel, and complex problems. To ensure their organizations adapt for long-term success, strategic-level leaders require the cognitive skills to make sense of and successfully navigate within these complex environments and anticipate the future. To enhance the skills required to think strategically, the U.S. Army has taken a multidisciplinary perspective to educating its future leaders. Various thinking lenses are introduced to teach various thinking skills, with the exception of the discipline of economics. The U.S. Army should include Economic Thinking in any properly developed multidisciplinary framework for cognitive skills required of sound strategic thinkers. Failure to include this specific thinking skill could result in future Army leaders unprepared to analyze certain complex, ambiguous issues and craft informed decisions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 24, 2011
Accession Number
ADA553059

Entities

People

  • Mark B. Kelly

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Active Duty
  • Economic Analysis
  • Economics
  • Education
  • Employment
  • Governments
  • Human Behavior
  • International Relations
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Political Science
  • Recreation
  • Social Sciences
  • Students
  • Thinking
  • United States
  • War Colleges

Readers

  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Systems Analysis and Design