BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

I’m scheduled for a background interview today on creating a thought leadership strategy. The interview is an outgrowth of an eBook on thought leadership. The eBook came from a workshop someone did at a conference I’ve spoken at many times. What to Say about a Thought Leadership Strategy?

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Eight years ago today, I published an article about personal leadership, asking the question, “What would you do with an extra day?” That proved to be true; since that time, we have collaborated on two American Marketing Association national market research conferences several years ago and a creative workshop a few months ago.

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BrainZooming

MAY 16, 2017

You have a strategic plan completed by a small senior leadership team. You have just taken over leadership of a company. Your senior leadership team held a meeting to develop a strategic plan. Typical complaints about a strategic planning process. If you have a role in strategic planning, do any of these describe your situation?

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BrainZooming

MAY 29, 2020

Since April, we’ve been developing and soft launching a new online collaboration experience called Blast! Zane wanted to develop and share content that addressed what business executives need to be thinking about in strategy, innovation, branding, and creative leadership. The possibilities include: Webinars for your audience members.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 9, 2017

I dropped a variation of the question into an online collaboration workshop for a client’s strategic planning process. The organization is going through a major leadership transition. During a break in the conversation, I returned to the online collaboration results and copied the elephant issues on a big easel pad.

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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. A Personal Leadership Test. Based on the personal leadership turnaround, I made the case several times for a demotion and not a termination.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

A Remedy from our eBook, 321 GO! In the new Brainzooming strategy eBook 321 GO! , Take on leadership and responsibility for decisions. The leader wanted to see them broaden and expand the concept’s horizons. They requested a follow-up innovation workshop to inspire bigger, further out thinking.

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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

MARCH 23, 2017

The best way to make it happen using our collaborative process. What they need to achieve: They need to deliver a plan with the framework their leadership has approved, but still make sure it’s collaborative and engaging in a way their strategic planning process never has been previously. What they need to achieve.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

A couple of online collaboration Zoomference workshop s (to engage the leadership team without them having to travel). A day-long, in-person leadership team visioneering workshop (to develop the main inputs into the strategic plan). In the new Brainzooming strategy eBook 321 GO! ,

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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. Waiting for inspiration before launching.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2017

This situation prompted sketching two strategic planning process approaches (narrow or broad collaboration) and alternatives for how an organization communicates its strategy. This is a new visualization of something we experience that paves the way for another benefit of strategic collaboration. A Narrow Strategic Planning Process.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Are you making sure women are in leadership positions where they can voice things that need to be said that male leaders are unwilling to say? We have free Brainzooming eBooks for you to help navigate barriers and boost innovation! And once they did, the men in the group jumped in to these powerful conversations. Scarce resources ?

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The title is from a leadership presentation that I do. Our free “Big Strategy Statements” eBook lays out an approach to collaboratively develop smart, strategic directions that improve results! 9 Ways to Understand the Political Fray and Stay the Hell Out of It. Via Shutterstock.

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BrainZooming

MAY 8, 2018

A participant at a Brainzooming creative leadership presentation stayed afterward. Download our FREE eBook: Reimagining the SWOT Analysis. Whether you are just starting your strategy or think you are well down the path, you can use this eBook to: Engage your team. He asked an intriguing question. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

That doesn’t mean leadership should spell out everything. Make sure senior leadership is saying and DOING things that send a clear message: trying new things is fine, we understand not everything is going to work, and it’s vital we look beyond our current environment to identify innovation strategy possibilities. 4 Encourages Change.

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BrainZooming

JULY 18, 2018

Using Idea Magnets strategies, you’ll be able to envision new creative paths that deliver powerful impact, attract new ideas and people, and strengthen your leadership. This companion eBook shares strategies that build on the seven strategies in Idea Magnets. Is your creative leadership style hopeful?

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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. The only client contact for nearly three years was the blog email and an eBook download.

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BrainZooming

JULY 25, 2016

It is a LEADERSHIP problem when purported employee engagement strategies are not working. It means leadership has not made a credible case for WHY employees will benefit from going beyond the bare minimum to justify going all in to make company initiatives successful. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Download our FREE eBook, 3 Ways to Turn Budget Meetings into Strategic Activities. Get your copy of 3 Ways to Turn Budget Meetings into Strategic Activities and grow your strategic leadership to drive better business results! 3 Ways to Fix Budget Meetings. Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

MAY 23, 2017

One way to instill the mindset that a functional department also needs to take on a leadership role in the organization during strategic planning (and afterward) is asking and answering these two strategic thinking questions: Within our strategic plan…. 2 Strategic Thinking Questions for Strategic Planning Activities in a Matrix Organization.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 12, 2017

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. After the individual conversations, introduce the recap at a leadership team meeting with no surprises.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 15, 2017

This involves working with the organization’s leadership team to identify important factors shaping strategic decisions. In the new Brainzooming strategy eBook 321 GO! , Take on leadership and responsibility for decisions. The group discussion determines the ultimate location for each idea on the grid.

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BrainZooming

MAY 30, 2017

As you and your leadership team announce the new innovation strategy, your employees have questions. This FREE eBook features thirteen question-based exercises to foster strategic conversations for disrupting. How will the innovation strategy eliminate your revenue shortfalls? That is not yet completely clear yet.

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Inceodia

JANUARY 27, 2019

In the fourth industrial revolution, the skills in highest demand are understanding, collaborating and communicating with the humans we interact with, the people our business serves. Most smart business people would not attempt to pitch an idea to leadership without customer evidence of need. Get my Human Centered Innovation eBook.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 8, 2018

This FREE eBook features thirteen question-based exercises to foster strategic conversations for disrupting. Disrupting Thinking is the answer to starting the conversations your leadership team needs to have about disrupting your own brand before unexpected competitors do it to you first! – Mike Brown. Marketing strategies.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 15, 2017

We have considerable content on moving forward amid uncertainty (including the 4 Strategies for Implementing in Uncertain Times eBook), and we’re developing additional strategic thinking pieces on uncertainty and flexibility. Start tackling an alternative strategy before outside forces require you to do it. – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Reading responses about the strategic planning challenges faced by executives downloading our eBooks suggests a variety of strong blog topics. Leadership sponsoring strategy planning. Can you more thoroughly incorporate leadership expectations into the strategy planning approach you use? This is not a unique situation.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 23, 2017

The occasion was presenting our first strategic market plan at Yellow Transportation (whose name was Yellow but whose color was orange) to the senior leadership team. Our free “Big Strategy Statements” eBook lays out an approach to collaboratively develop smart, strategic directions that improve results!

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BrainZooming

JULY 25, 2017

Tomorrow, I’ll be closing the Nature Explore and The Outdoor Classroom Project Leadership Institute with a comparable message. One theme for the Leadership Institute presentation is finding the blue sky – the open opportunities – even amid what seems to be an onslaught of constraints and limitations.

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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. Download our FREE “Taking the No Out of InNOvation eBook to help generate extreme creativity and ideas! If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog e mail updates.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 7, 2017

We’ve used this technique to allow a leadership team the flexibility to talk in an open format, while capturing their strategic insights and organizing them in a way they can productively use. Our free “Big Strategy Statements” eBook lays out an approach to collaboratively develop smart, strategic directions that improve results!

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

In the new Brainzooming strategy eBook 321 GO! , Take on leadership and responsibility for decisions. we share common situations standing in the way of successfully implementing your most important strategies. You will learn effective, proven ways to move your implementation plan forward with greater speed and success.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Creating Change with Less Leadership and Information than You’d Like. Download this free, concise eBook to : Identify your organization’s innovation profile. Download this FREE eBook to turn ideas into actionable innovation strategies to drive your organization’s comeback! 29 Phrases Blocking Innovative Ideas.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 4, 2016

Download this free, concise eBook to : Identify your organization’s innovation profile. Download this FREE eBook to turn ideas into actionable innovation strategies to drive your organization’s comeback! Rapidly deploy effective strategic thinking exercises to spur innovation.

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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. For setting an overall strategy to handle change fears, download our innovation fears eBook offers seven possible strategies to consider. Creative Thinking Is a Broad Topic. Scarce resources ?

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BrainZooming

MARCH 21, 2017

In the new Brainzooming strategy eBook 321 GO! , Take on leadership and responsibility for decisions. we share common situations standing in the way of successfully implementing your most important strategies. You will learn effective, proven ways to move your implementation plan forward with greater speed and success.

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