What is “strategic thinking”?

How do strategists think?

Strategy is more a way of thinking than a technique

How do strategists think?

In the 50th an American psychologist George Miller worked at the Bell laboratories. He conducted experiments to find out how human memory worked. He discovered that human short-term memory is generally limited to holding seven pieces of information, plus or minus two. He described his findings in the monography The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on our Capacity for Processing Information), published in 1956 in Psychological Review.

But then Nelson Cowan from Missouri-Columbia University questioned Miller’s conclusions. For example, he noticed that when people need to memorize, say, a phone number, they subconsciously divide it into several blocks, three o four digits each — we all do so, don’t we? And on 17 of April 2008, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences magazine published the result of his research. Cowan claimed that, regardless of race, sex, or age, a human being is c…