① Focus on your vision to start noticing things related to it.

 

 
 

② Focus on the whole, not the parts, find relationships between elements.

 

 
 

③ Think systemically, combine intuition and data, analytical thinking with synthetical thinking to find system-wide focus.

 

 

 
 

④ Search for synergies among business units, functions, processes, innovations, and partners.

 

 
 

⑤ Look beyond the obvious, search for connections between situations that are not obviously related.

 

 

 
 

⑥ Change perceptual positions, step out of your shoes and into the shoes of other stakeholders – customers, competitors, partners, investors – to surface new insights.

 

 
 

⑦ Balance the short and long term, generate short term wins, and consolidate gains... More

 
 

Holistic thinking is the ability to see things as a whole (or holistically), to understand and predict the many different types of relationships between the many elements in a complex system (example), and also perceive  the whole picture through sensing its large-scale patterns.

 

Synthetical thinking is deliberately finding repeating patterns (or common themes) across a system or situation.