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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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

JANUARY 20, 2017

If enough people started praying for better leadership, would divine intervention save us from what is already an ugly pattern that seems to have no hope of ending well, absent a miracle? Pick your position, do your strategic thinking, and start creating positive change — today! – Mike Brown.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

These carefully curated retreats offer more than just a change of scenery; they provide a unique opportunity for senior leaders to step back from daily operations, recalibrate strategies, and strengthen the interpersonal bonds that are critical for cohesive decision-making.

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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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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

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. Don’t Overthink It?

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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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BrainZooming

JANUARY 3, 2019

When it comes to focus and preparation exercises, it’s a numbers game. And that’s always the goal with strong set of creative thinking questions: to push you to explore important (often overly-familiar) areas more deeply and with fresh thinking. 8 Creative Thinking Questions to Focus Your Year. Here’s the Answer!

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Our primary contact saw me speak in 2014 at Compete Through Service Symposium produced by the Arizona State University Center for Services Leadership and subscribed to the Brainzooming blog email. He changed jobs early in 2017 and re-subscribed to the blog with his new company’s email address.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 4, 2017

This behavior obscures looking at their areas and the entire organization strategically, comprehensively, and with a smart investment perspective. If you’re interested in changing the strategic disconnect of budget meetings – whether you are in finance and accounting or not – we have a guide! 3 Ways to Fix Budget Meetings.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 23, 2018

The strategy change is dramatic and a disruptive business model, but hardly a surprise. How can you imagine automating nearly everything you do to fundamentally change your cost dynamics, allowing you to super-size the benefits and value you deliver? Mike is a frequent speaker on innovation, strategic thinking, and social media.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Yet, having worked with the individual closely in the previous year, I witnessed the most dramatic turnaround in personal leadership I had ever seen in a co-worker. This person made big changes, working to take a different, more productive approach to co-worker and executive interactions. A Personal Leadership Test.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 9, 2016

On a personal basis, certain strategic leadership basics are a good place to start adjusting your attitude and growth as a strategic leader. Organizationally, a change management assessment we use identifies the types of change challenge an organization faces, along with ideas for approaching them successfully.

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BrainZooming

MAY 16, 2017

Typical complaints about a strategic planning process. If you have a role in strategic planning, do any of these describe your situation? You have a strategic plan completed by a small senior leadership team. The executive director, on the other hand, is not inclined to want to complete a strategic plan.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

“Buy in from staff on the new vision and the required change” 5 Keys to Engaging Employees in Innovation Strategy – Our Buy-In Manifesto. Strategic Planning Process. “Helping train my team to be strategic thinkers and not just executors” Creative Thinking Skills for Sales – A Workshop Approach.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 11, 2016

What leadership skills are necessary to successfully champion a collaborative strategy ? The task at hand is selecting “champions” from among the organization’s leadership team to move forward with strategic initiatives developed from the input of employees across the organization. You could put this first or last on the list.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 21, 2017

How do you move from creative thinking into action? That was a persistent question during a recent Brainzooming strategic thinking workshop that also included a heavy dose of content on creative thinking. They also wanted a sense of when and why you should think creatively. Turning Creative Thinking into Action.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 27, 2019

They also share fundamentals behind the model: Scan – Be on the lookout for new market patterns, emerging customer preferences, unfamiliar competitors, and pattern-breakers changing your industry. Orient – Take advantage of your diverse leadership team to assess where your business is (or could be) potentially losing competitive advantage.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 25, 2017

Constantly seeking leadership approval, even when it’s not necessary. Taking up more time gathering information that will not change results. Related posts Making a Decision – 7 Situations Begging for Quick Decisions Visioning Exercises for Strategic Planning – New eBook Shows You How!

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BrainZooming

JULY 19, 2016

That insight drives the smart change management steps needed to navigate each innovation challenge. We use a diagnostic with senior leadership teams that ties to the ten innovation barriers. The first step in the brief strategic thinking exercise has individual leaders assess the presence of the organization’s roadblocks.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 8, 2018

FREE Download: 13 Exercises for Disruptive Innovation Strategy. This FREE eBook features thirteen question-based exercises to foster strategic conversations for disrupting. Which leads to a question YOU will need to answer: Who is in your YOUR innovation strategy workshop? – Mike Brown. Brand benefits and value propositions.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 18, 2016

The Little Caesars TV ad shows one employee questioning another about making pizza dough from scratch every day for fifty years without ever changing. Ideas someone has struggled to sell-in so no one wants to change anything and re-sell them. Programs where leadership is solidly on-board. ” It’s a mildly humorous ad.

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The Inovo Group

APRIL 10, 2020

“For planning and implementing strategy, the need is for a broad definition that encompasses both ‘today-for-today’ and ‘today-for-tomorrow’ … The primordial task of leadership is the strategic one of moving the company towards the future.”. Some things will change immediately. This is a time of non-linear transformation.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 12, 2017

Here is a recommendation to make it happen through taking on three different strategic roles. . Amid a recent major leadership transition, the incoming CEO drove a broad, collaborative, strategic input initiative. A large leadership group shaped a strategic plan with several strategies and accompanying tactics.

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Idea Drop

JULY 20, 2017

For most businesses, every day is an exercise in problem-solving. If the conditions are right, meaningful change can evolve from the smallest seed of inspiration; an observation, a discussion, or even just an interesting question. The key principles of strategic thinking Limit your time: strategic thinking is all about efficiency.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2018

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Such big-picture visions of the future can provide insights that expand and influence current strategic thinking, but they often lack the specifics to effectively inform current actions.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This blend of personal and social competencies forms the bedrock of effective leadership, directly impacting a leader’s ability to navigate the complexities of the workplace. For more on how these components play out in practice, see our article on emotional intelligence in leadership.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 10, 2016

I inherited leadership of our department about a week into the strike, and we pointed EVERYONE toward understanding current customer sentiment and developing the plan to incent them to use our brand again even though we had let them down. Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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