This book is my journey on the road to understanding how the successful strategists learned to think strategically. In this book, I offer a synthesis of findings from several years of qualitative research in pursuit of a single question: How do successful executives learn to think strategically? As part of an interpretive case study, I conducted in-depth interviews with nine successful executives in Japan, Poland, China, Germany, the United States, and Hong Kong to pursue this inquiry. I visited the executives in their work environments to see what their worlds were like, to ask questions, to listen, and to observe.