Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

Importance of Strategic Thinking for Senior Executives Strategic thinking is an indispensable element for senior executives. As a senior leader, strategic thinking enables you to anticipate market trends, identify potential challenges, and devise plans that steer your organization towards sustained success.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

Importance of Strategic Thinking for Senior Executives Strategic thinking is an indispensable element for senior executives. As a senior leader, strategic thinking enables you to anticipate market trends, identify potential challenges, and devise plans that steer your organization towards sustained success.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

If you’re looking at your organization and wondering where to start to foster a more innovative workplace culture, here are forty articles to go deeper into the topic. Articulating Your Strategic Innovation Direction in an Understandable Way. Strategic Thinking Questions to Identify What Matters for a Brand.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The objective was to solicit their innovative ideas for how to create the highest impact in a challenging conference space. 9 Strategic Thinking Questions – Innovative Ideas from Experts. Many of the strategic thinking questions we share help people imagine things that have never happened.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 10, 2018

Since The Brainzooming Group launched, we have developed many strategic thinking exercises and models applying our methodology to diverse clients and business situations. We are further along and can even more easily customize these strategic thinking exercises to your needs if you face comparable situations. The result?

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

It’s essential for you to understand that your mindset dictates how you perceive and respond to situations, ultimately influencing your effectiveness as a leader. The transition from operational to strategic thinking involves not only acquiring new skills but also unlearning and re-evaluating long-held beliefs and practices.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

It’s essential for you to understand that your mindset dictates how you perceive and respond to situations, ultimately influencing your effectiveness as a leader. The transition from operational to strategic thinking involves not only acquiring new skills but also unlearning and re-evaluating long-held beliefs and practices.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Importance of Strategic Planning Offsites A strategic planning offsite is not just another meeting; it’s an investment in your organization’s future. By removing distractions and dedicating time solely to strategic thinking, you create an atmosphere where creativity and big-picture thinking can thrive.

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BrainZooming

MAY 8, 2018

While the reorganization isn’t intended to move them out of the department, he wondered how to best involve all the team members in re-imagining the department. 5 Strategic Thinking Questions to Engage Employees in Reorganization. 5 Strategic Thinking Questions to Engage Employees in Reorganization.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

It seems ridiculous to help a company become better at strategic thinking and marketing without being allowed to tell them how to do it. While this constraint may seem (and actually be) ridiculous, it shaped how the Brainzooming method developed. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 11, 2016

It received enough attention that we decided to share an additional strategic thinking exercise that puts a twist on the typical SWOT analysis. To add depth and breadth to the strategic thinking exercise, however, we add four probes to each area of the SWOT analysis. Need to get your strategy developed quickly?

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BrainZooming

APRIL 15, 2016

Interestingly, the most challenging situation for Brainzooming strategic thinking workshop success is when it includes TOO MANY individuals viewing themselves as creative. Talking with someone about the most difficult Brainzooming strategic thinking workshop EVER inspired the blurb below. Yes, you read that right.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

For more insights into leading executive team offsites for business strategy, visit our article on leading executive team offsites for business strategy. For more detailed strategies on facilitating these discussions, browse our article on facilitating strategic planning offsites.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Setting the Stage for Success To set the stage for a successful strategic planning offsite, several key steps should be taken: Define Clear Objectives : Be clear about what you want to achieve during the offsite. Choose an Appropriate Venue : The location should be conducive to strategic thinking and free from interruptions.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 6, 2016

Here are links to fourteen articles integrated within the workshop. Strategic Thinking Questions to Identify What Matters for a Brand. Strategic Thinking Questions to Identify What Matters for a Brand. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 5 Questions to Test Vision Statement Impact. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

MAY 6, 2016

At the 2016 Brand Strategy Conference, Antonia Dean, Director – Marketing, Brand Development, & Strategy at The Estée Lauder Companies covered the strategic thinking ideas behind creating an entrepreneurial environment in a large company. You don’t know how to get a UPC code attached to a new product?

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

These retreats are not merely a change of scenery but a strategic move to foster innovation and alignment among the top decision-makers of your company. 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.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 27, 2018

One meeting participant said this type of strategic thinking was a breakthrough for them. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. Try these 6 Steps 16 Strategic Thinking Exercises Ready to Go for You Right Now! It opens up a whole new array of potential options.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Just HOW MUCH have we written on change management strategy? Well, to identify the articles listed here, a search for “change” on the blog yielded eighty-six PAGES of articles. 35 Articles on Change Management Strategy in a Change Agent Role. A 13-Point Strategic Change Management Checklist. Just Start!

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

How to Generate 100+ Cool Product Names in a Hurry! If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. Mike is a frequent speaker on innovation, strategic thinking, and social media. More Posts - Website Follow Me: The post How to Generate 100+ Cool Product Names in a Hurry!

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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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BrainZooming

MARCH 8, 2016

and listed “unfreezing (a) team, moving forward, and preparing for growth” as the strategic task at hand. The clarity and directness of this strategic challenge prompted me to assemble this list of organizational change articles focused on these three areas. Creating Strategic Impact – How to Start? Just Start!

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BrainZooming

JUNE 27, 2019

A friend shared an online Harvard Business Review article by George Stalk, Jr. and Sam Stewart about how Av oiding Disruption Requires Rapid Decision Making. They advance a model explaining superior fighter pilot performance as a recommended way for how to avoid disruption in your markets. How to Avoid Disruption with SODA.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

For more on this subject, delve into our article on success factors for executive team offsites. This phase lays the groundwork for a successful meeting where strategic goals can be effectively developed and refined. It should be conducive to the creative and strategic thinking that you aim to foster among your executive team.

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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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BrainZooming

AUGUST 2, 2017

While reviewing mini-strategic plans attendees developed at a recent logistics company customer event we facilitated, I relied on one that works well. We designed a group exercise for participants to identify strategic plan topics. We also provided an overview with instructions about how to write a mini-strategic plan.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 10, 2018

and lots of articles, too! Accelerate will help you think about potential resources in dramatically new ways. We have links to articles on all these topics, plus a set of case studies from Disney, Estee Lauder, and Amazon. Here are links to nineteen Brainzooming articles on these topics: Frame Your Innovation Landscape.

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Focused Momentum

AUGUST 12, 2020

This article is part of our Strategic Thinking During a Pandemic series. Last week I was invited to participate in a panel on how to support the nonprofit sector through the pandemic.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Strategic Thinking Exercises – 5 Questions to Test Your Vision Statement Impact . Strategic Thinking Exercises – Where Does Your Brand Live? . How to Brand a Company – 7 Types of Brand Language You Should Use . As a resource for both the attendees and for all of you, here are links for each of the nine checkpoints.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

What is your brand’s big story, and how does EVERY message you send link in some way to your big story? How can you give customers all kinds of clues to how to use your product once they buy it so that they will use and enjoy it more? Mike is a frequent speaker on innovation, strategic thinking, and social media.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

A high XQ in executive teams equates to an in-depth understanding of how to apply knowledge in a variety of contexts, particularly in unpredictable environments. XQ is not merely about what we know, but how we apply that knowledge effectively. The integration of XQ into executive functions is a potent tool for driving innovation.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 31, 2017

Is there something or some place you can go to get ideas on how to develop a strategy workshop? Since this was a recent search topic here, we are sharing our recommendations for ideas on coordinating a strategic planning process workshop. This list of articles from our blog contains ideas for: Selecting a location. Facilitators.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 2, 2017

What types of strategic planning activities are in a strategic thinking workshop ? As we collaborate with a client to design strategic planning activities for a strategic thinking workshop , we explore various possibilities. 6 Potential Strategic Planning Activities for a Workshop.

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BrainZooming

MAY 20, 2016

These features will include photos and strategic thinking questions or innovation prompts. And just as we hope for all Fridays, future Creative Quickies will be fast, fun, and stimulating enough (via strategic thinking questions) to give you something to ponder and act upon when you return to the office the following week.

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BrainZooming

MAY 29, 2020

Zane Clark of the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) reached out in early April to discuss a multi-part webinar series for the association’s members on how to restart their businesses. I’ve spoken at SEMA conferences multiple times and have also spoken and written articles for the Performance Racing Industry. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 16, 2016

9 Ideas on How to Involve a Team in Group Strategy Exercises. You can try these nine ideas for how to involve team in group strategy exercises: Place people in roles that accentuate their strengths and best characteristics. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 14, 2017

We also have quite a bit on fun strategy planning, including one of our most popular new eBooks, 11 Fun Ideas for Strategic Planning. The question got me thinking about specific strategic planning questions we use to liven up strategic thinking. 3 Short, Funny Strategic Planning Questions.

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