Foresight styles of strategy level leaders

The Foresight Styles Assessment (Dian 2009; Gary 2008, 2009) was regarded as an important measure of a strategy level leader’s dominant and back-up styles of engaging with matters related to anticipating the future. This study sought to confirm the factor structures of the measure. A quantitative two-step methodology was adopted as a pilot study preceding the main study in which a web-based survey methodology was used. The sample consisted of 298 strategy level leaders. Data was analysed by exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis. The FSA’s four factors Directive, Adapter, Framer and Reactor were confirmed. Theoretical concerns could be raised regarding whether the Reactor factor describes a foresight style

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