Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

Understanding Mindset Shift for Senior Executives As you step into the realm of senior leadership, the importance of mindset cannot be overstated. Mindset serves as the foundation upon which all of your strategic decisions, interactions, and innovations are built.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from the daily operations, you and your leadership team can focus on long-term goals, team building, and innovative thinking. These gatherings are critical for aligning leadership on company vision, strengthening interpersonal relationships, and making decisions that will steer the company’s future.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

We see seven keys to creating an innovative workplace culture where individuals are able to meaningfully contribute to the organization’s innovation strategy. 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.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 3, 2024

Culture is shaped by a variety of factors, including the company’s mission, leadership styles, policies, work environment, and the behavior modeled by those at the top. As a leader, you are in a powerful position to shape and develop executive leadership to drive organizational culture change.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By recognizing these benefits, you can appreciate the value that strategic planning offsites add to your organization. For a deeper dive into how you can lead your team to strategic success, explore leading executive team offsites for business strategy. Objectives should be S.M.A.R.T

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BrainZooming

APRIL 19, 2017

Other than dropping price, in what ways can you adapt your branding strategy to boost the benefits and reduce the costs (be they financial or non-financial) of having your company as a provider? That’s not a new branding strategy question, but it came to mind once again while heading to my car after morning mass yesterday.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

By stepping away from the day-to-day operations and fostering a focused environment, your leadership team can craft innovative strategies and strengthen collaboration. Importance of Strategic Planning Offsites A strategic planning offsite is not just another meeting; it’s an investment in your organization’s future.

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BrainZooming

MAY 8, 2018

A participant at a Brainzooming creative leadership presentation stayed afterward. 5 Strategic Thinking Questions to Engage Employees in Reorganization. I offered him five strategic thinking questions: When is our organization at its best in performing the variety of activities we do? Stimulate fresh thinking.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

Instead, a more holistic approach to leadership intelligence is required—one that includes Experiential Intelligence (XQ). The Importance of Innovation in Executive Leadership Innovation is the lifeblood of any successful organization. The integration of XQ into executive functions is a potent tool for driving innovation.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 30, 2017

Fanatics introduced disruptive innovation to its marketplace with an agile strategy. It also uses its agile strategy to market apparel for niche opportunities where it might sell as few as ten t-shirts. We thought the list was intriguing, so we secured the go ahead to share the strategic thinking questions with you here.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

This week’s “Inside the Executive Suite” from the Armada Executive Intelligence Brief newsletter highlighted two Wall Street Journal articles examining leadership strategy in light of how involved a teacher or coach should be in the details of teaching and learning. . Encourage a unique, personal path.

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BrainZooming

MAY 29, 2020

The New Important – Strategy in a Pandemic-Shaped World. Zane wanted to develop and share content that addressed what business executives need to be thinking about in strategy, innovation, branding, and creative leadership. Rethinking your brand and growth strategy to address lower demand expectations.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Looking for ways to spice up your organization’s strategic planning process before you lock into the same old strategy ideas shaped by your senior team’s conventional wisdom? Try asking surprising strategic planning questions to push your leadership team toward new thinking. What are our threats?

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

What leadership strategy should you employ to succeed while dealing with this type of pernicious corporate antagonist ? An Unconventional Leadership Strategy with a Corporate Antagonist. Participating in everything, he will be part of a lot of strategy setting, review points, and decisions.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

We’ve written a tremendous amount about change and change management strategy since the Brainzooming blog’s inception. 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.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

During in-person and online strategic planning workshops , we regularly use a strategic thinking exercise that helps leadership groups quickly identify a shared future vision statement. The descriptions are purposely neither good nor bad; they simply represent ways an organization could pursue the strategy.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 4, 2016

A New Add to Our Extreme Creativity Strategic Thinking Exercises. Thinking about the statement further and the audacity of trying to do “the impossible with nothing” suggested this idea was the ultimate in extreme creativity. ” Why are we adding this strategic thinking question?

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BrainZooming

MAY 31, 2018

The general manager at an industrial manufacturer wondered about how to effectively engage the hourly workforce as innovation strategy participants ? What about the financial hurdle of engaging hourly employees in innovation strategy? Strategic leaders look at this as an investment with an expected future return.

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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. Four of the five report outs in this strategy planning workshop were delivered by female leaders in the organization. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

JULY 26, 2021

What options are there when assembling a leadership team or board of directors who want to do blue sky thinking for big ideas? Seems simple, although delivering on this objective requires deft design to enable a collaboration with a chance of producing big thinking. Framing the Thinking Perspectives.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 11, 2016

What leadership skills are necessary to successfully champion a collaborative strategy ? A client fully immersed in developing and implementing a collaborative strategy asked that question. When we leave after the plan is completed, however, we’re finding many leaders aren’t prepared to implement a collaborative strategy plan.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

We routinely ask those of you downloading Brainzooming strategy and innovation eBooks to share – if you are willing – the opportunities and challenges you are facing at the time. “Buy in from staff on the new vision and the required change” 5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto. .

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 8, 2018

Who should you invite to participate in an innovation strategy workshop ? We’ve written about three important strategic perspectives (general management, functional expertise, and people with creative energy) and three types of voices (traditional, challenger, and emerging) to include in any type of strategy workshop.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 18, 2018

Three years hence, is your leadership team challenging itself to think, plan, and innovate strategically to land on the right side of future success? If not, it is time right now to download your free copy of Disrupting Thinking – 13 Exercises to Imagine Disrupting Your Brand Before Someone Else Disrupts You!

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

For insights on staying ahead of the curve, consider exploring creating business strategy in a world of AI-driven rapid change. 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.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Eight years ago today, I published an article about personal leadership, asking the question, “What would you do with an extra day?” If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog e mail updates. ” Well, here we are again, with an extra day for Leap Day.

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BrainZooming

JULY 25, 2016

The thing is, unsuccessful employee engagement strategies are not an employee problem. It is a LEADERSHIP problem when purported employee engagement strategies are not working. We see great leaders among our clients successfully taking steps that meaningfully involve employees in shaping strategy and implementation.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

The Age of AI and Business Strategy Understanding AI-Driven Rapid Change In the current landscape, AI-driven technologies are reshaping industries at an unprecedented pace. For insights on building robust business strategies in this disruptive environment, explore our guide on building business strategies for a disruptive world.

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The Inovo Group

APRIL 10, 2020

In this time of non-linear transformation, the ultimate winners will be those agile companies that are thinking now about their near-term survival AND their long-term advantage. A ‘dual-path’ strategy includes both ‘Today-for-Today’ and ‘Today-for-Tomorrow’ strategies that require new methods and tools to create.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Successfully going from strategy to implementation, however, is critical to business success. Creating a strong, innovative plan is only part of the strategy equation. 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 28, 2018

That sentiment all revolves around our content marketing strategy. The client we’re onsite with today working on an innovation strategy comes with an intriguing history. By mid-year, he completed a Contact Us form on the website, wanting to discuss his brand’s innovation strategy. Brainzooming Has an Answer!

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Budget meetings are not integrated with strategic planning and business strategy. In it, we share actionable ideas for turning tactical accounting reviews into strategic conversations balancing business results with the financial underpinning necessary to achieve them. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

“Inside the Executive Suite” from Armada Corporate Intelligence featured an article this week with strategic planning questions based on Amazon. Inspired by an article in The Wall Street Journal by professor Scott Galloway, they lay out five strategic imperatives Amazon uses to disrupt markets and grow.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

I found this article recently. A search on the Brainzooming blog to track down content for an updated strategic thinking presentation uncovered it. Reading “9 Ways to Understand the Political Fray and Stay the Hell Out of It” after all these years, it may be the most beneficial article we’ve ever run.

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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. . Not an easy task.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

For insights on identifying the right corporate event speaker , consider exploring our dedicated article. Publications and Thought Leadership : Authoring books, articles, or maintaining an active blog on innovation topics can demonstrate thought leadership.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

The folks over at “Inside the Executive Suite” from Armada Corporate Intelligence addressed an important aspect of customer experience strategy this week: turning your organization’s claims of customer focus into real actions. Customer Experience Strategy: 4 Ideas for Creating Customer Focus.

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