The  ability to strategise seems to be partly innate, partly learned. 

Great strategists seem to have four instinctive behaviours that distinguish them  from others.

This doesn't mean strategising skills can't be learned, only that how they are taught has to adapt to the innate abilities of the strategist.  

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