ImagineNation

OCTOBER 7, 2023

A recent McKinsey Leading Off – Essentials for leaders and those they lead email newsletter, referred to an article “The organization of the future: Enabled by gen AI, driven by people” which stated that digitization, automation, and AI will reshape whole industries and every enterprise.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 8, 2016

Last week, we presented a creative and strategic thinking workshop for a Brainzooming reader who leads the national sales division of a global industrial manufacturer. We integrated the Brainzooming strategic thinking workshop into their annual sales meeting. Benefit 2 – New Learnings.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 15, 2024

This synergy is particularly crucial when navigating the challenges presented by disruptive technologies, artificial intelligence, and shifting market demands. Knowledge Sharing: Collaboration encourages the exchange of knowledge and skills, leading to continuous learning and improvement.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

XQ refers to the ability to draw from past experiences, learnings, and insights to make better decisions, solve complex problems, and navigate the uncertainties of the corporate world. Additionally, learn how to maximize team performance by leveraging experiential intelligence to create psychology safety for high performing teams.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2016

Listening to the discussion among the team leader and other members of the organization driving the event, I grabbed paper, a Sharpie, and started organizing their aspirational comments into a presentation for the next day’s meeting. 9 Creative Thinking Skills to Turn Talk into Strategy.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

For deeper insights on leading such initiatives, explore our article on leading executive team offsites for business strategy. For guidance on the planning process, consider reading our article on designing leadership team offsites for strategic planning. It’s also about fostering dialogue, collaboration, and reflection.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 9, 2024

The service we provide is the distillation of what we've learned, since 1987, designing and facilitating more 1,500 creative thinking sessions for 130 organizations in 11 countries. Bottom line, we know how to open the floodgates of creativity. question for your team to brainstorm.

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Brunner

JULY 12, 2023

Only a few short years ago, the general public learned companies were collecting and selling data with every click consumers made. With creative thinking and new strategies being implemented, Brunner is partnering with clients to find ethical ways to store and gather data. A Wild West without rules and regulations.

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ImagineNation

MAY 30, 2023

Requiring us to make sense of and navigate the paradoxical nature of innovation leadership, by developing multiple perspectives to re-think how to respond positively and creatively to the high levels of tension and range of massive disruptions we collectively face in our current high-speed, constantly changing, global operating environments.

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

shared in a recent article “Losing from day one: Why even successful transformations fall short” – Organisations have realized only 67 percent of the maximum financial benefits that their transformations could have achieved. Yet, according to research conducted over fifteen years by McKinsey & Co.,

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BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2018

Seeing the question about how to boost an audience’s energy level ahead of time (and knowing they’ll want specifics), prompted this list of thirty things I’ve done during my career of designing and delivering interactive presentations and workshops. Present while walking throughout the room / audience.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

In 2016, I wrote the article What is innovation? ” Since then, the article went viral, with thousands of shares and hundreds of thousands of views. This meant the original article only included male perspectives. If we don’t have clarity on our present state (i.e., Diana Kander. Esther Gons. Karin Hurt.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

The value of such gatherings lies in their capacity to refresh perspectives, encourage strategic thinking, and address complex challenges without the distractions of the office environment. For additional guidance, our article on success factors for executive team offsites offers valuable insights.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 4, 2016

I attended a presentation on cultivating a creative culture delivered by Michael Perman, formerly of Gap, at The Marketing Conference last week in San Francisco. During his keynote, Perman discussed twenty-plus three-day creativity sessions he organized while at Gap. What mix of creative diversity will drive implementation?

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ImagineNation

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Where consciousness encapsulates our states and qualities of mind, our capacity for imagination and curiosity are the necessary states of mind that stimulate creativity , all of which propel successful innovators to bring the new to the world differently. What can successful innovators learn from cats? Life Magazine 1955.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 24, 2018

Creative Thinking: Tesco Homeplus Virtual Subway Store. Disrupting Thinking. Creative Thinking – 12 Triggers for Finding Strategic Connections. Strategic Thinking Exercise – New Product Idea Basics and Extremes in 30 Minutes. Suffice it to say, we oversaw LOTS of learning and many activities.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 6, 2017

My friend explained that over a period of years, her bosses shot down every dynamic possibility she proposed as a creative marketing idea. The cumulative impact is she no longer offers big creative ideas because there isn’t any point. She said she didn’t think about developing creative ideas like this at all.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 30, 2016

I mentioned upcoming business collaboration opportunities for Brainzooming yesterday , including co-presentations, creating content, and developing new workshop and training offerings. There is a mutual commitment to learning from the business collaboration. What to look for in a business collaboration?

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Michael Michalko

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

You might learn more than people, or the objects you’re studying, superficially reveal.” Dean Simonton professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis “Know your stuff: creativity requires expertise; but don’t know it too well: overspecialisation puts blinders on. Listen carefully and pay close attention.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Creative Thinking Skills – 5 People Vital to Critical Thinking, Literally. “Helping train my team to be strategic thinkers and not just executors” Creative Thinking Skills for Sales – A Workshop Approach. Strategic Thinking – Exercises and Tools for Creative Thinking and Strategy.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 10, 2016

The key to efficiently boost creativity in the workplace is through introducing idea-rich questions and statements into daily business conversations. We shot the video after I delivered our presentation on Taking the NO Out of Innovation at the 2015 SEMA Convention. My favorite expression of creativity at SEMA! Mike Brown.

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 26, 2022

This article is adapted from his recent book, What Matters in This Moment: Leading Groups Through Uncertain Times. It is characterized by constant iteration and collaboration, where the group’s learning is applied to continuous improvement of ideas. This article has offered a few places to start I hope you find useful.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Creative Love. Creative Thinking – 6 Challenges Before Loving Your New Idea Too Much. Managing Clients Who Love Their Creative Ideas. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog e mail updates. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. It’s Valentine’s Day.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2019

Speakers and presenters included professionals from around the globe; educators, actors, consultants, special-effects supervisors, directors, musicians, and others. Even cynical types were openly surprised at the insights and learnings. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates.

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ImagineNation

AUGUST 4, 2019

Where people will maximize the use of all three modalities, our heads, hearts and hands to fill the interpersonal and creative roles that will be hardest of all to mechanize. Contrasting with the information age where analysis and thinking have been the main activities. “An Find out more.

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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. The mini-book focuses on the tremendous value when an organization finds ways to strategically solicit employee insights and perspectives to shape its strategic thinking.

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Michael Michalko

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

If you can’t find it, go to the end of this article for the answer. Cognitive scientists understand the importance of perception and pattern recognition as a major component of creative thinking. The Bongard problems present two sets of relatively simple diagrams, say A and B. Learn how to become a creative thinker.

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Michael Michalko

MARCH 3, 2017

CREATIVE CORNER. Provide a special area for people to engage in creative thinking. Stock the area with books, videos on creativity, as well as learning games and such toys as beanbags and modeling clay. Encourage weekly lunch-time meeting of three to five employees to engage in creative thinking.

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Michael Michalko

JUNE 1, 2017

Or, in other words, you had to break normal thinking patterns, something that the new Esquire said it could help modern men do. Over time the puzzle became synonymous with creative thinking and the phrase “thinking outside the box” has now become a cliché for creativity. Creative thinking is inclusive thinking.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Designing strategic thinking questions leading to engaging conversation among familiar and new participants. Not sharing all the upfront homework in long presentations (which are almost always NOT FUN), but instead designing the entire strategic planning workshop to reflect the homework’s findings.

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Innovationship

MAY 30, 2018

9 BAD HABITS TO BREAK FOR BETTER IDEATION Time flies, seasons change, and before you know it, the annual barrage of articles trashing the validity of brainstorming is once again upon us. The bottom line is that many great ideas go unnoticed and undocumented when a skilled facilitator is not present. The primary reason?

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 15, 2015

If we’re headed into a client session or a meeting and need a few creative thinking questions, I visit the blog and grab suitable questions from one of our compilation posts. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”.

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100%Open

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

One of the biggest discussion points at present is in relation to the impact these developments will have on the future of work and jobs. For instance will Article 1 of the Declaration still necessarily be true in the future? If we have learned nothing else, it is that nobody is an island and we are better together.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Every now and then, we’ll run a post that recaps Facebook and Twitter updates, blog post scraps, and other random creative thinking, all smushed together, Larry King-style. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. If you enjoy those, today’s your day! “Danger. Something I hate?

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BrainZooming

JUNE 6, 2016

While I’m creating a tremendous amount of new content (workshops and presentations, eBooks, and client deliverables), it’s not transferring to blog content as readily as it has in the past. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. We’re off our schedule, however.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 7, 2017

LEARNING PLANS: Will there be chicken at your conference? But there will also be too many people just taking up space, assuming their role is to be spoon fed by presenters. All of this will be summarized in a Conference Playbook that everyone will receive -- a simple way to ensure meaningful, real-time, peer-to-peer learning.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In this article, we will walk through what a mind map is while discussing some of the important ways it fuels innovation. If you want to learn more about collaboration and innovation, check out our article on design thinking. Enables Tiered Thinking. Includes Larger Context.

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