BrainZooming

MAY 18, 2016

During a strategic thinking skills workshop for a client, we shared ideas for taking information from varied sources and identifying strategic themes. The picture represents two approaches to strategic thinking skills that analysts I’ve met throughout my career display. You’ll enjoy it! – Mike Brown.

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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

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Here’s the strategic thinking question I saw in that moment: Where are your mirrors? Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders are looking for powerful ways to engage strong collaborators to shape shared visions. They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. What’s your mirror?

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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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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

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.

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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. For insights into integrating EQ into leadership development programs , including strategies for enhancing EQ skills among leaders, peruse our detailed guides.

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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. 3 Ways Your Internal Branding Strategy Can Be Smarter than United Airlines.

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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. More on this can be found in the article leveraging experiential intelligence to create psychology safety for high performing teams.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 4, 2016

They reported the team’s defensive coordinator, Bob Sutton, told them that when planning competitive strategy , “I want to stay out of ‘never’ and ‘always.’”. What fantastic competitive strategy advice to incorporate this time of year as you implement new strategies. Who Sees Predictable Competitive Strategy Moves?

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BrainZooming

MARCH 10, 2017

The article highlighted innovation strategy options that drug companies are using to instill and support risk-taking behaviors. The innovation strategy options include cultivating company culture, celebrating failures with parties and awards, and making sure they are failing as fast as possible with sufficient learnings.

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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

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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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Is it a good or bad career strategy if you do not have a job description ? Quite honestly, my initial career strategy advice was to avoid a formal job description for as long as possible. Since this executive was expected to devise a job description, we created a straightforward career strategy-oriented exercise to start.

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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 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. Beyond these possibilities, what else can your brand explore to expand its repertoire of market listening strategies? Directly Observing Customers.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 27, 2016

What’s the story on the innovation strategy for beer? Rather than playback the various innovation strategy stories Pat McGauley shared, here is a sampling of quotes and points he made that stood out as great thought starters: Not all innovation strategy inside a company is created equal. Pat formed two innovation teams.

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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. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 24, 2016

An attendee at the Curacao Social Media and Content Marketing Strategy Workshop raised a new (for me) and pertinent question: What are ideas to go live with brand impact? Nevertheless, thinking of content marketing strategy analogies , brands doing live video strikes me as very similar to “destination TV.”

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 13, 2018

In an article from The Wall Street Journal , subtitled, “Uber Users Flub Cab Rides,” writer Katherine Bindley highlights how individuals accustomed to app-based rideshare services don’t know how to behave in cabs (or even their own cars). If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 19, 2016

I’ve just signed on to speak at the 2016 Social Media Strategy Summit in Las Vegas. The topic will be an update to the “Staying Sane as a Solo Social Media Professional” workshops I’ve delivered at previous Social Media Strategy Summit events (and elsewhere). 2 Ways to Decide When to Write What with Your Content Marketing Strategy.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 29, 2016

We are working with a client to develop a content marketing strategy for multiple business units in the organization. The first step was for our client to talk with the presidents of the various business units to understand their strategic objectives. During the discussion, he apologized for not having any strategic objectives.

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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

JUNE 7, 2017

“Inside the Executive Suite” from Armada Corporate Intelligence featured ideas keeping executives focused on strategic priorities during strategic planning meetings. An executive reported a real-time challenge: keeping the senior team at her company focused on strategic priorities.

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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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