BrainZooming

MARCH 9, 2016

9 Creative Thinking Skills to Turn Talk into Strategy. The team leader’s question prompted this list of 9 creative thinking skills that help turn strategic conversations (or even conversations that seem like talking without any particular strategic focus) into something that feels like strategy.

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BrainZooming

JULY 18, 2018

Idea Magnets: 7 Strategies for Cultivating & Attracting Creative Business Leaders , my new Brainzooming book on daily innovation, is now available on Amazon.com. We’ll be officially celebrating the book’s launch on Monday, July 23 with a live presentation at 11:00 am Central Daylight Time (US).

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 23, 2016

What if your fear of being wrong is so great that you can’t even start implementing creative ideas that are just for you for fear you’ll goof something up? Typically, the creative thinking exercises we teach and use are a huge source of hope to get past fears about self-judged “bad” ideas. Is there hope? Sure, there is hope.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 29, 2016

A New Business Collaboration in Dallas. I think Mess reached out online after reading some Brainzooming articles. Leading up to the Dallas trip, we were discussing her new role as a Communications Animator at The Grove , a social impact-focused co-working space located across the street from what was the Texas School Book Depository.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Success factors in strategic planning and creating collaborative strategy were the central topics we tackled on an edition of Smart Companies Radio, hosted by Kelly Scanlon, the owner of Thinking Bigger Business Media, Inc., Creating Strategic Impact mini-book. 10 Keys to Collaborative Strategy and Strategic Planning.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

We’re big proponents of the value of bringing together a diverse group of people with varied creative thinking skills for strategic planning workshops within organizations and communities. Sometimes we use online collaboration within an in-person strategic planning workshop. Discover How Online Collaboration Boosts Progress.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

The week included: Large scale community collaboration workshops – Nearly eighty students from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale gathered Monday night and a comparable number of Carbondale, IL residents assembled on Tuesday for community collaboration workshops to imagine the community’s future with Gigabit Internet capabilities.

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Stephen Shapiro

JUNE 28, 2022

Remember, this book was written a dozen years ago, so some concepts have evolved. Open-source software is a well-known collaborative community. As we saw in the previous tip, innovation tournaments and bounties can be run either competitively or collaboratively. TO COMPETE OR NOT TO COMPETE: THAT IS THE QUESTION (part 1 of 3).

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

This can help maintain energy levels and encourage informal collaboration. Let’s explore how you can create an environment conducive to collaboration and strategic thinking. Mastery in encouraging open communication and fostering collaboration and creativity can set your offsite apart.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 1, 2015

In nearly every Brainzooming community collaboration workshop, we conclude with a Plus-Minus-Interesting-Recommendation-Question exercise (a PMIRQ for short). 41 Surprising Things about Community Collaboration Done Well. New People Coming Together Collaboratively and Effectively. Small unknown group collaboration”.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Objectives may range from fostering a culture of innovation, introducing new industry trends, or sparking creative thinking among attendees. Listed below are common objectives that could shape your selection process: Event Objective Description Inspire Innovation Encourage creative thinking and innovative approaches.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 16, 2018

It’s like the secret to creative success for everyone ! If you want to collaboratively engage your team (or multiple teams) in a strategic and creative thinking process in which any of them can discover the secret to creative success, then it’s time to contact us. I like the concept, a lot.

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Cris Beswick

MARCH 14, 2024

As I highlight throughout my book, ‘ Building a Culture of Innovation ‘, companies that fail to make Innovation integral to their cultures risk losing relevance, ceding ground to disruptive start-ups, and struggling to attract and retain top talent. The challenge is that our world requires us to repeat those one-offs continuously.

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Michael Michalko

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Ask someone to collaborate with you on your favorite project. Turn a conference room into an upbeat “think tank” room. Read odd books — having nothing to do with your work. Block off time on your calendar for creative thinking. Use creative thinking techniques. Take your team off-site for a day.

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Idea Champions

MARCH 22, 2021

STORYTELLING FOR THE REVOLUTION : Book about the power of personal storytelling. FREE THE GENIE BRAINSTORMING : Facilitated, online creative thinking sessions for individuals and small teams. STORYTELLING AT WORK : Award-winning book about the power of personal storytelling in the workplace. Founded in 1999.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2016

These insights can become the inspiration sparks of your group’s creative thinking. Six years ago, when Amazon sold primarily print books, company research showed that customers liked e-books—a new product that threatened Amazon’s core business. In fact, by April 2011, Amazon became the world’s largest e-book retailer.

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Idea to Value

MARCH 7, 2022

Tiffani Bova is the global growth evangelist at Salesforce and the author of the Wall Street Journal bestselling book GROWTH IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices that Will Make or Break Your Business. She is also the co-author of the recently released book Innovation Accounting, and the founder and CEO of GroundControl. Twitter: wilg.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Participants will work in small groups in an environment that encourages creative thinking and innovative brainstorming and prototyping. With planning engaging activities, a hackathon can yield more collaboration, interaction, and networking. Looking for more innovation and design thinking resources ?

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 15, 2018

I share this story because as we’ve been working on the manuscript for a new Brainzooming book on Idea Magnets and creative leadership , I’ve been thinking a lot about how leaders and followers encourage each another. .” I thanked him for showing up early to lead it.

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BrainZooming

JULY 20, 2018

The next natural question in our conversation was about what types of strategic thinking questions to ask. While I think there’s a Brainzooming blog post for this, it was almost faster to write a new, updated list of questions than to find the post. 21 Strategic Thinking Questions When You Have Nothing to Ask. via Shutterstick.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 25, 2016

You know, this week doesn’t have to be as unproductive as last week, what with business meetings going nowhere along with wasting time, positive energy, and any hope of creativity. The thing is, there’s a different way to structure business meetings to help a group come together and collaborate in an innovative, productive way.

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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 is a guest post by Harry Webne-Behrman.

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Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2017

The ‘product of my work’ itself is presently being worked through to be available as an e-book in the coming weeks. I think design thinking seems presently fairly messy and I feel is in need of a complete reset. Where Design Thinking Can Earn its Place.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

You can provide people with strategic thinking exercises, creative thinking tools, strategy questions, and ways to collaborate with one another, using structure to help imagine better strategies. This means there is no opportunity for productive collaboration to devise the plan.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders are looking for powerful ways to engage strong collaborators to shape shared visions. This new Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” unveils ten proven lessons for leaders to increase strategic collaboration, engagement, and create improved results.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 6, 2015

And by the way, here are the most frequently referenced compilations: Strategic Thinking Exercises – More than 200 Strategic Planning Questions. Strategic Thinking – Exercises and Tools for Creative Thinking and Strategy. Creative Thinking Skills – 200+ Tips and Tools. What to Blog About?

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

And the asterisk on fun acknowledges we’re stretching the definition of fun to cover things nerdy strategic planners think are fun such as “mental stimulation,” “highly collaborative groups,” and “people that want to be involved in strategic planning the next time it happens.”. 11 Boring Details for Making Strategic Planning Fun*.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 24, 2018

We led the group through a customized Brainzooming Innovation Fake Book of exercises. Creative Thinking: Tesco Homeplus Virtual Subway Store. Disrupting Thinking. Creative Thinking – 12 Triggers for Finding Strategic Connections. See why we couldn’t cover EVERYTHING we hoped to address?

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The Human Factor

JULY 6, 2021

In the book, Veruca wants to buy a squirrel from the Nut Room. Employees struggle to deliver exceptional results in a space that doesn’t enhance their creativity, work process, and overall mental health. As Willy Wonka refuses, she grabs one herself but is soon declared a bad nut. Find ways to deliver on time every time.

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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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hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

To help innovation officers and wannabe innovators in their task, we’ve put together the best books to inspire you and help your company and workforce stay relevant. Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter Drucker In this classic book published in 1985, Peter F. Obviously, the books is rife with exciting anecdotes and case studies.

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ImagineNation

AUGUST 4, 2019

Contrasting with the information age where analysis and thinking have been the main activities. “An An imagination economy is defined by some thinkers as an economy where intuitive and creative thinking create economic value, after logical and rational thinking has been outsourced to other economies.”.

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Idea Champions

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

It's not in your favorite holy book 18. You have not identified a challenge or opportunity that inspires you enough to think up new ideas. There's no one to collaborate with. You haven't read my award winning book yet. The last time you came up with a great idea, you were either ignored or ridiculed. Lack of immersion.

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Idea Champions

AUGUST 19, 2020

It's not in your favorite holy book. You have not identified a challenge or opportunity that inspires you enough to think up new ideas. There's no one to collaborate with. You haven't read my award winning book yet. Our no BS creative thinking training It's not in your job description. It's not in the cards.

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Idea Champions

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

The working title of my still-to-be-written book about the experience? Until then, here are the words of Fazeel, reflecting on our collaboration: "I had a strong desire to introduce a culture of creativity and innovation to our humble school in Australia. 1,000 Muslims and a Jew ). There is no quick path.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders are looking for powerful ways to engage strong collaborators to shape shared visions. This new Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” unveils ten proven lessons for leaders to increase strategic collaboration, engagement, and create improved results.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

This Brainzooming mini-book, “Results – Creating Strategic Impact” unveils ten proven lessons leaders can use to boost collaboration, meaningful strategic conversations, and results. Download this free, action-focused mini-book to: Learn smart ways to separate strategic opportunities from the daily noise of business.

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