BrainZooming

MAY 1, 2017

Emma Gibson forwarded an article from Harvard Business Review addressing four factors that distinguish top chief executive performers in creating strategic impact. 4 Critical Factors for Successful Executives in Creating Strategic Impact. Strategic Thinking Exercise – Simply Making Big Decisions.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

To avoid the pitfalls of a static strategy and ensure your business is future-proof, it’s essential to foster a culture of agility and strategic foresight. Cultivating a Forward-Thinking Mindset The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. Reward calculated risk-taking, even when it doesn’t always lead to success.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

Innovation in executive teams is not just about developing new products or services; it’s about fostering a culture of continuous improvement, strategic thinking, and adaptability. This approach encourages a more collaborative and innovative team dynamic, which is essential for business growth and success.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

It requires a shift in your strategic thinking, urging you to anticipate changes and react with precision. For guidance on fostering strategic thinking within your leadership team, refer to 10 ways to get your leadership team thinking strategically and building the best business strategies.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

For more on how these components play out in practice, see our article on emotional intelligence in leadership. They tend to foster a more collaborative and positive work environment, which can lead to better team outcomes. For further insights, explore our article on leadership and self-awareness.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 24, 2018

And we made sure that every table reporting out received tokens as prizes. Strategic Thinking Exercise – New Product Idea Basics and Extremes in 30 Minutes. Strategic Thinking Exercises – Doing the Impossible with Nothing? Strategic Thinking Success – 3 Critical Thinking Perspectives.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 10, 2017

Ensure you have all the strategic thinking perspective and voices we always recommend. Additionally, for these strategic planning vision exercises, make sure you include external participants with expertise and perspectives not burdened by the organization’s current, status quo vision.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Implementing innovation in organizations reluctant to embrace the changes needed to survive and grow requires what we’ve come to call “strategic project management.” Here are twenty-one articles organizing project management techniques we’ve been sharing with clients to help create needed changes in their organizations.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

An article in The Wall Street Journal by Paul Ziobro shares an report on how toy manufacturers, including Mattel and Hasbro, are accelerating their new product innovation processes. The company’s CEO reports having given the team very little budget and only three months to have toy ideas ready for last January’s toy fair.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 22, 2016

I debuted a presentation on “Results – Creating Strategic Impact,” our mini-book on employee engagement ideas to boost an organization’s strategic thinking. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategic planning and then turn it into results.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 21, 2017

The folks at Armada Corporate Intelligence offered an internal branding strategy take on the United Airlines woes, offering strategic thinking questions you can ask and answer to improve your brand’s resiliency and avoid brand crises. Everyone Is a Reporter, Everyone Is on Camera. Via Armada Corporate Intelligence.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

We were facilitating report outs at a strategy planning workshop after multiple teams tackled developing high-level plans to improve various employee challenges in a relatively high-performing company. Why were these report outs different than others we’d done previously? Mike Brown. Facing Innovation Barriers? Here Is Help!

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Faisal Hoque

DECEMBER 10, 2020

We’re losing sight of the importance of soft skills–like communication, empathy, mindfulness, creativity, collaboration, and leadership. According to a recent Future of Jobs Report , the World Economic Forum says “technology-related and non-cognitive soft skills are becoming increasingly more important.” Photo: CoWomen /Unsplash].

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Faisal Hoque

DECEMBER 10, 2020

We’re losing sight of the importance of soft skills–like communication, empathy, mindfulness, creativity, collaboration, and leadership. According to a recent Future of Jobs Report , the World Economic Forum says “technology-related and non-cognitive soft skills are becoming increasingly more important.” Photo: CoWomen /Unsplash].

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 12, 2017

This week’s “Inside the Executive Suite” article from Armada Corporate Intelligence looked at how you focus a distracted organization on an implementation strategy to align and focus activities. Here is a recommendation to make it happen through taking on three different strategic roles. . Role one involves being a reporter.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 29, 2016

During the discussion, he apologized for not having any strategic objectives. He reported being too focused on near-term issues to have developed any strategic objectives to tackle. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates.

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BrainZooming

JULY 4, 2017

These are some of the things we suggested to honor the team’s request for faithfully reporting their comments: Ask questions that allow individuals to express their own thinking instead of having to conform their language to how the strategic planner describes things.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 26, 2017

Last week’s “Inside the Executive Suite” article from Armada Corporate Intelligence picked out highlights on leadership skills from Fast Company magazine. The February issue of Fast Company arrived, featuring a special report called, “Find Your Purpose – 175 Inspiring Business Lessons to Navigate the Year Ahead.”

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 27, 2016

He reported that packaging innovation was more difficult to develop than liquid innovation. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. Pat’s innovation team was responsible for product and packaging innovation. By 2014, competitor innovation represented 35% of beer industry growth.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 7, 2017

If your team wanders away from the important strategic topic, here’s a strategy to address it: 3 Ways to Keep Strategic Priorities Front and Center with Executives via Inside the Executive Suite. An executive reported a real-time challenge: keeping the senior team at her company focused on strategic priorities.

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Boxes and Arrows

JULY 10, 2008

Generally speaking, though, people under pressure may answer personality tests as they think they should rather than honestly. Collaboration is a big part of design best practice and the ability to work well with teammates should be of paramount concern.

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