Trump has a great strategic mind!
Yes, I am talking about Donald Trump, the current president of the United States and to me, he is one of the great strategists of all the times.
But at first, please limit this writing within the scope of theoretical conversations on in Strategic Management study. Only through the lens of strategists, the meaning of each of his moves, actions and tweets turn out to be making logical senses and understandable, and in some cases, predictable.
Please locate his strategic mind development within his practical industry onset. Let’s take some concrete examples on his business activities from 1970s to 2000s in New York and Chicago real estate. Donald Trump did change the facades of many municipal areas in these cities with his invincible achievements. The growth of his entire empire has proved a single fact that he is the actual game changer in the business world, even many people believe Trump enjoys his playing the bad guy roles in his practice. The trail in his whole business life have expressed his extraordinary talent in strategic thinking, a very much rarely unparallel one.
His genius for unconventional strategic thinking also bloomed to the full prime in the mid of 2010s. The final triumph of his presidential election campaign in 2016 was a shock not only to long-held ideals of American democracy, but to the rest of the conventional world. The phenomenon that for the first time, the elected president as a billionaire with no government experience, was a powerful rejection of so many well established, but not strong enough, institutional and social forces. His strategic reactions on public communication has vanquished the traditional operation of mass media. In the aspect of social change, his victory became an essential event for the US political space, even his electioneering has been realized as a stunning culmination of an explosive, populist and polarizing campaign.
With an unparalleled thinking approach in most of the issues, in both domestic and international, Trump often does not follow any rule and actively chose the contradictory positions. This mindset is healthy to challenge the status quo and bring the innovative fresh air to many roundtables, energizing more changes and motivating more creative actions. And such mindset is actually what we are thirsty for decades to the many long-time unsolved issues from immigration to globalization.
A very curious question, for any strategists, might be: what is the exist strategy for his surprised presidential job?
Just reviewing the mainstream media in 2017 till now, I believe you now, through the lens of strategists, can realize his clever exist strategy is “the media has been trumped”. He will become the first historic hero of the democracy in 21st century if he can succeed in existing his position on time, because the essential market value for his election event to the US politic environment is now still on the highest range of the chart.
His strategic mindset now is understandable and predictable. The media will be more and more trumped, and it will be his next victory to exist successfully the presidential job within 2020. Just remember that it is one of his strategic moves and he is the real champion.
