5.3.4 第一阶段：战略性思考

The ability of a society to develop its economy is fundamentally dependent on its capacity for strategic thinking. Without it, community members run the risk of utilizing the underlying riches in their system sparingly by attempting to solve their problems in a piecemeal or haphazard manner. They are less likely to comprehend how their choices will affect the community’s future prosperity and are less able to recognize potential strategic intervention areas.

再生环境中的战略思维强调生命系统内部存在的潜力，只等待被推动和实现。这与旨在通过影响发挥作用的力量来利用环境的策略有很大不同。相比之下，再生被认为侧重于进化策略。

这就需要开发一套比传统战略思维更进一步的技能，并且必须将这些能力创建为战略规划整体流程的一部分。生命系统框架可用于教导人们如何思考复杂的动态系统，而无需将它们分解成单独的组件。其次，个人需要培养对自己的行为、发展、个人状态、意志和决心以及个人能动性完全承担责任的能力。第三，人们需要学习如何专注于任务的基本组成部分，同时忽略无关的细节。第四，人们需要学会欣赏地方作为一个生命系统，认识到影响它及其潜力的社会、环境、经济和文化因素的错综复杂的网络。

Working on their neighborhood helps residents develop these thinking skills by creating a strategic direction for the neighborhood’s future that is based on a thorough understanding of who it is and what it might become. The following step is to translate this orientation into an ever-evolving collection of leveraging pursuits and actions that are intended to motivate community members to invest in realizing their individual and communal potential.