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Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas

BrainZooming

While this constraint may seem (and actually be) ridiculous, it shaped how the Brainzooming method developed. What this suggests for you is that when working with a team, you don’t necessarily have to be ready to respond by saying ideas and concepts are good or bad. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas.

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Leadership Skills – 8 Ways to Fake It Until You Make It

BrainZooming

Suppose you’re going into a meeting and taking over leadership of a team or initiative where those you will be leading have been involved and active previously. Develop a basic agenda for the meeting with the participants doing most of the talking, as you listen and summarize ideas. Solicit each participant’s ideas in advance.

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Strategic Thinking Exercise – An Alternative Vision Statement Approach

BrainZooming

The descriptions are purposely neither good nor bad; they simply represent ways an organization could pursue the strategy. We turn that input into a collaborative vision statement. The idea of a leader collaboratively determining the direction organization should go is rare. Pushing Back on a Strategic Thinking Exercise.