Editing Strategizing (section)

== Strategic Capacity ==
Strategic capacity, the ability to create effective strategy, is best developed by a leadership team, rather than in the head of a single individual. As our leadership team strategizes, these three factors increase its capacity to strategize.

=== Diverse Knowledge and Perspectives ===
When a leadership team has a diversity of life experience and knowledge, it can facilitate innovative and creative thinking. With a diverse group comes access to a wide-range of knowledge for strategizing in your specific context, which can be used to strategize multiple different solutions to choose from to achieve the desired outcome. The leadership team can then choose the solution that will be most effective.

=== Learning Processes ===
Since strategizing is an ongoing process, learning processes are key to developing strategic capacity. Leadership teams should listen and seek out feedback to their strategy, gauge success or failure, and adapt accordingly. These learning processes can feed into changes that will be reflected in an updated strategy or strategies.

=== Motivation ===
Motivated individuals are more driven to do the hard work that is required to learn the knowledge and skills needed to achieve a desired outcome. Motivation also influences creativity because it affects the focus towards one’s work, ability to concentrate for long periods of time, persistence, willingness to take risks, and the ability to sustain high levels of energy.

In closing, strategy is simply turning what you have into what you need to get what you want. Thinking through – Who are our people? What is our problem? What is our goal? And what is our theory of change? – is critical to effective community organizing.

===== Further Reading =====
Beautiful Trouble. Points of Intervention. See http://beautifultrouble.org/theory/points-of-intervention/
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