BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

A Remedy from our eBook, 321 GO! We brought two specific inspirations to the innovation workshop: extreme and analogy-based creative thinking exercises. Using these creative thinking exercises, we pushed them to forget (temporarily) what they have been doing and re-imagine the situation from different perspectives. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

JULY 5, 2017

Given that, moving to an entrepreneurial environment in 2009 was new territory when it came to learning innovation strategy lessons. 5 Innovation Strategy Lessons Learned as an Entrepreneur. Reviewing this most recent development phase for The Brainzooming Group, here are five innovation strategy lessons I’ve personally learned: #1.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 4, 2016

I attended a presentation on cultivating a creative culture delivered by Michael Perman, formerly of Gap, at The Marketing Conference last week in San Francisco. During his keynote, Perman discussed twenty-plus three-day creativity sessions he organized while at Gap. What mix of creative diversity will drive implementation?

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BrainZooming

MARCH 17, 2017

Short Story: When it comes to creativity, start with and return to the underlying strategy ; that’s the most important piece of creative advice I have to offer. I’ve been trying to let go of some creative reins on the Brainzooming brand. 8 Pieces of Creative Advice from a Great and Horrible Client.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Download Our FREE eBook – 11 Fun Ideas for Strategic Planning. If you are trying to figure out how to spice up strategic planning activities at your company, you need to download our new FREE eBook, “11 Fun Ideas for Strategic Planning.” You will learn ideas for: Handling the not-fun parts of strategic planning.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 21, 2017

Short Story: Look for specifics and things that people can actually do or perform to move creative thinking into action. 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.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 15, 2016

Interestingly, the most challenging situation for Brainzooming strategic thinking workshop success is when it includes TOO MANY individuals viewing themselves as creative. Having TOO MANY strong creative perspectives can tank the actionable results coming from a strategic thinking workshop more than having too few creative individuals.

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BrainZooming

JULY 13, 2016

When it comes to whether an organization demonstrates ample creativity and new ideas, you have to place a load of responsibility on the leadership. How the leaders encourage and cultivate new ideas (or don’t) will affect the volume and richness of creativity throughout the organization. Leaders Supporting Creativity and New Ideas.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

As an example, I wrote some time back about the “Shrimp” creative thinking exercise we included during a creative thinking workshop for a regulated financial services company. Rethinking the “Shrimp” Creative Thinking Exercise. So back to what I have no idea about when it comes to Shrimp.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 9, 2018

Vickie’s drive to strategize, revise, and improvise in the name of extreme creativity and productivity is as fierce and inspiring as ever, making her a natural choice for an interview on the Brainzooming blog. Now Streaming: Extreme Creativity and Vickie Howell. Boost Your Extreme Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2016

Looking for Extreme Creativity ? Are you REALLY looking for extreme creativity? Close the door, or put on the headphones, and settle back for extreme creativity in a unique rock music mashup style! – Mike Brown. Boost Your Extreme Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. Do you have a few minutes to spare?

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

I used to think creative inspiration came from inside. As a result, the pressure for inspiration and creative thinking was always dependent on me. What did I need to do to trigger creative thinking? At some point, God provided the grace to realize my creative inspiration was from outside, not inside. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 6, 2016

We’re developing a strategic thinking webinar for a client on cultivating and sustaining creativity among its salesforce. Since the webinar is with the organization’s sales leadership, the focus is on creative thinking skills they can and should be embracing to help their salespeople see opportunities in new ways. Creating new rules.

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BrainZooming

MAY 29, 2020

Since April, we’ve been developing and soft launching a new online collaboration experience called Blast! I want to share updates in the days ahead from the learnings and lessons relevant for you, as Brainzooming readers, from these activities. Old self-critical habits die hard, I guess. Mike Brown. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

Creative Thinking – The Math of Brainstorming and New Ideas. #3 Innovation Strategy – 6 Ideas Better than “Clean Sheet of Paper” Creativity. 9 Extreme Creativity Questions from Peter’s Laws. Creative Thinking – 7 Keys to How “Idea Magnets” Boost Creativity. Creativity in Business – 48 Creative Appreciation Ideas.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

We’ve certainly covered the heck out of how bad bosses , toxic cultures , and negative comments can crush creative thinking and creativity. What you might not consider, however, is how an uber-positive boss that is TOO OVER THE TOP when communicating how great early stage ideas are ALSO CRUSHES creative thinking.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 22, 2016

Delivering a creative thinking workshop , I was eavesdropping on conversations at five tables full of attendees. One group was starting to use one of our creative thinking exercises. When this takes happens, creative thinking exercises becomes just that many more boxes to shut down ideas that are off the beaten path.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 10, 2015

We’re with a client today, delivering a strategic and creative thinking skills for sales workshop. As an outgrowth of the workshop, here is a strategic and creative thinking skills compilation comprised of articles that support the Brainzooming workshop we’re delivering. Structure and Creative Thinking Skills.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

They want to collaborate now and in the future. During these 10 years, we’ve stayed on this path, bringing our collaborative strategy approach to organizations around the world via client engagements , speaking , and sharing how readers can implement our approaches through nearly 2,500 articles on the Brainzooming website.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 14, 2015

I’ll be presenting on social media super models , followed by a VERY QUICK creative thinking exercises for sales presentation. The creative thinking exercises for sales content is a different take on both familiar and some new creative thinking topics. Creative Thinking – 12 Triggers for Finding Strategic Connections.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 11, 2016

I mentioned that in creativity presentations, I teach people to draw by using letters or numbers – things they know how to use – to uncover their creativity. When I texted a picture of the drawings, a friend wondered how Harry’s drawings would become creativity lessons for a blog post. More Creativity Lessons Ahead?

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Acuvate

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Prefer a culture of open collaboration. Most of the millennials prefer organizations with flexible, innovative workplace environments where they can be productive and creative to make an impact on business growth. Learn More: What is an idea management software & why your business needs one. More technology focused.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 29, 2016

Creative Thinking Skills – Some Working, Some Not Working. Amid the odd times, it’s no surprise my creative thinking skills have varied widely the past few months. Getting a few hours of sleep and starting fresh in the morning (even if it’s REALLY EARLY) has been creatively productive. That’s unchanged so far this year.

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Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

We have a particular key learning to share along with an open innovation success story. First, let’s briefly go over Collective Creativity. We talked a lot about the Collective Creativity principle and its importance in not only our business world, but society. Now, that is what we call Collective Creativity in action.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 19, 2015

What’s a “pizza meeting,” and what does it have to do with creative thinking? Back in the Fortune 500 days, we facilitated so many strategic planning workshop sessions we gave up renting creativity-oriented offsite locations. To do SOMETHING to make the space a little creative, we’d arrange the tables and chairs every which way.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 25, 2017

If you find your teams continually struggling to turn strategic plans into implementation success, the Brainzooming strategy eBook, 321 GO! In this new strategy eBook , we share common situations standing in the way of successfully implementing your most important strategies.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 24, 2019

Topics ranged from entrepreneurship to leading creative teams, from being cognizant of one’s news sources and information suppliers to the factors that make up a creative mindset. Even cynical types were openly surprised at the insights and learnings. The hard part, honestly, was deciding which sessions to pick.

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mjvinnovation

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

To make it even simpler, you could say that Design Thinking is an innovative approach based on the designer’s thoughts, combining creativity and empathy to create innovative solutions. Ideation: collaborative brainstorming sessions with the help of tools to create innovative solutions. What are some Design thinking tools ?

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BrainZooming

JUNE 9, 2017

It is in the spirit of our mutual respect and collaboration, then, that I implore you to consider a simple upgrade to your modus operandus. So please, please, please: learn how to use technology, already. Avoid the mental calisthenics: admit what you don’t know, and then learn what you should know. You have the relationships.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 21, 2017

This new ebook features sixteen strategic thinking exercises to help you ideate, prioritize, and develop your best innovative growth ideas. Download this free, concise ebook to: Identify your organization’s innovation profile. Learn and rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Want to hang out with some of the Brainzooming crew in San Francisco next week and learn all kinds of valuable information on content marketing, social media, marketing strategy, and branding? I’ll be doing workshops on content marketing and collaborative branding strategy. D ownload Your Free Internal Branding Strategy eBook!

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BrainZooming

JULY 31, 2017

Michael won the creative kit door prize I gave away. Boost Your Extreme Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. Download our FREE “Taking the No Out of InNOvation eBook to help generate extreme creativity and boost your creative thinking skills! Why do I call it my Lee Harvey Oswald presentation?

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BrainZooming

JUNE 29, 2017

Someone downloaded a free Brainzooming strategy eBook, noting his biggest strategy challenge is “how to do a strategic planning process when you are new.” Creating Strategic Impact” Senior executives are looking for employees who are strong collaborators and communicators while being creative and flexible.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 4, 2017

Before the event was set to start, she messaged me: amid her thanks for the post’s help, she mentioned planning to skip the opening keynote because it didn’t seem as if she’d learn anything. People were laughing, enjoying it, and she learned things! Boost Your Creativity with. She responded, “Don’t skip the opening keynote?”.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 20, 2016

Chuck’s creativity techniques and helped us generate tons of ideas. Since we were learning as we went, some sessions worked better than others. After that, whenever we designed a strategic planning workshop, we made deliberate design decisions on the right balance of creative thinking and focused plan building.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 11, 2017

The topic was trust, and how people that grew up in negative home environments with crappy parents can learn to trust and not trust the right people. Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. This Brainzooming strategy eBook features links to 600 proven questions for: Developing Strategy.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Creative Love. Creative Thinking – 6 Challenges Before Loving Your New Idea Too Much. Managing Clients Who Love Their Creative Ideas. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”. Download our FREE “Taking the No Out of InNOvation eBook to help generate extreme creativity and ideas!

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