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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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

For insights on staying ahead of the curve, consider exploring creating business strategy in a world of AI-driven rapid change. To avoid the pitfalls of a static strategy and ensure your business is future-proof, it’s essential to foster a culture of agility and strategic foresight.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Universality of Leadership: Challenging Industry-Specific Biases In the modern business landscape, we often hear the argument that leaders should be hired from within the same industry to be effective. Here, we make a case for the top five universal leadership skills, which are, arguably, more critical than industry-specific experience.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 15, 2021

I have just finished the second of a planned series with one of my favourite long-term collaborators Jeffrey Phillips. as a conversation between us, where we emphasise the important linkage between innovation and strategy. We need to resolve that issue within any innovation activity, it needs a “tight” linkage to strategy.

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Tullio Siragusa

JUNE 26, 2023

Redefining Leadership: The Transformative Impact of Artificial Intelligence In an increasingly digital world, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become an indispensable part of our daily lives. From healthcare to e-commerce, and now to leadership, AI’s influence is reshaping the way we function.

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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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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Importance of Fostering Innovation in Leadership Defining Innovation Culture An innovation culture refers to the values, behaviors, and norms that ensure an organization not only generates new ideas but also executes them to achieve positive outcomes.

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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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BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

We see seven keys to creating an innovative workplace culture where individuals are able to meaningfully contribute to the organization’s innovation strategy. It’s vital to point your innovation strategy in a direction. That doesn’t mean leadership should spell out everything. Who Needs Vision Statement Examples?

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BrainZooming

JULY 20, 2018

I suggested another one: Go ahead and ask a great strategic thinking question. The next natural question in our conversation was about what types of strategic thinking questions to ask. That’s why having a book of Brainzooming creative leadership ideas all in one place will be so handy! ). via Shutterstick. ).

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BrainZooming

MAY 8, 2018

A participant at a Brainzooming creative leadership presentation stayed afterward. 5 Strategic Thinking Questions to Engage Employees in Reorganization. I offered him five strategic thinking questions: When is our organization at its best in performing the variety of activities we do? Stimulate fresh thinking.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 15, 2017

We mentioned how frequently we’re being asked to incorporate uncertainty into Brainzooming creativity and strategic thinking presentations. Considering that, I added new strategic thinking content on flexibility into my presentation at The Leadership Institute.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 11, 2016

What leadership skills are necessary to successfully champion a collaborative strategy ? A client fully immersed in developing and implementing a collaborative strategy asked that question. The issue is it requires a leadership style that many organizations have never fostered.

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Idea Drop

JULY 20, 2017

We’re driven to collaborate, challenge and create. There are two distinct (though complementary) ways to work through a problem and develop a solution: we might label them ‘creative thinking’ and ‘strategic thinking’. The key principles of strategic thinking Limit your time: strategic thinking is all about efficiency.

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Paul Hobcraft

MAY 9, 2022

“ Strategy is useless without innovation; innovation is directionless without strategy” Below is an extract from “Reinventing Innovation” by John J Kao. Instead of hierarchy and control, the focus of management must be on collaboration and enabling what is new. Innovation touches everything.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 30, 2017

Fanatics introduced disruptive innovation to its marketplace with an agile strategy. It also uses its agile strategy to market apparel for niche opportunities where it might sell as few as ten t-shirts. We thought the list was intriguing, so we secured the go ahead to share the strategic thinking questions with you here.

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Tullio Siragusa

AUGUST 21, 2023

It’s a critical skill for leaders, who must navigate complex interpersonal dynamics, foster collaboration, and build strong relationships. It’s essential for effective leadership, as it fosters trust, improves communication, and enhances team morale. The question then arises: can AI help leaders level up their EQ?

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 24, 2023

It is our ability to consistently capture, build and develop new ideas within organizations or in open collaborations with others that have a direct effect on revenue growth and the ability to provide future sustainability. Future collaborations will build on a network of relationships and an ecosystem of design and thinking.

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BrainZooming

MAY 9, 2017

Learning what participants in an upcoming big meeting know, think, and believe before they come together in a large group is one tactic to strengthen team collaboration. 14 Team Collaboration Benefits from Pre-Meeting Outreach. Gaining these team collaboration insights can come through various pre-meeting outreach formats.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

During in-person and online strategic planning workshops , we regularly use a strategic thinking exercise that helps leadership groups quickly identify a shared future vision statement. The descriptions are purposely neither good nor bad; they simply represent ways an organization could pursue the strategy.

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BrainZooming

MAY 29, 2020

Since April, we’ve been developing and soft launching a new online collaboration experience called Blast! The New Important – Strategy in a Pandemic-Shaped World. Zane wanted to develop and share content that addressed what business executives need to be thinking about in strategy, innovation, branding, and creative leadership.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 26, 2018

Talking with one city’s representatives about strategies to sell-in a broadband recommendation with voters, they asked whether it is okay to engage its citizens after city leadership develops a recommendation. Engage your audience in collaborative strategic planning earlier than later. It involves more constraints.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

This week’s “Inside the Executive Suite” from the Armada Executive Intelligence Brief newsletter highlighted two Wall Street Journal articles examining leadership strategy in light of how involved a teacher or coach should be in the details of teaching and learning. . Encourage a unique, personal path.

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CMOE

MAY 28, 2021

With the changing needs and demands of clinical care, technology, and spending, leadership in healthcare must stay agile to keep up with the shifting tides. Who Fills the Leadership Role in Healthcare? Many individuals fill leadership roles in healthcare. Here are the five essential qualities for leadership in healthcare.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

What leadership strategy should you employ to succeed while dealing with this type of pernicious corporate antagonist ? An Unconventional Leadership Strategy with a Corporate Antagonist. Participating in everything, he will be part of a lot of strategy setting, review points, and decisions.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 11, 2016

Here’s an idea for a new strategic thinking exercise that can be a big help. 4 Ways to Examine Brand Performance as a Strategic Thinking Exercise. This is definitely a strategic thinking exercise idea from the Brainzooming R&D lab. Actively engage more employees in strategy AND implementation success.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

But if not for the blog, it would live in a file somewhere with no way to effectively retrieve it, even though it still holds up all these years later as a guideline for servant leadership and solid business behavior. If you are in a leadership position or aspire to one, feel free to borrow and adapt it to share with your team.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 4, 2016

A New Add to Our Extreme Creativity Strategic Thinking Exercises. Thinking about the statement further and the audacity of trying to do “the impossible with nothing” suggested this idea was the ultimate in extreme creativity. ” Why are we adding this strategic thinking question?

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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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BrainZooming

MAY 31, 2018

The general manager at an industrial manufacturer wondered about how to effectively engage the hourly workforce as innovation strategy participants ? What about the financial hurdle of engaging hourly employees in innovation strategy? Strategic leaders look at this as an investment with an expected future return.

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BrainZooming

MAY 2, 2017

Does your organization excel at its strategy implementation process ? Do you execute new strategies quickly, effectively, and successfully? A few clients we talk with mention a strong strategy execution process. We address their experiences in our collaborative strategy implementation approach.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 26, 2017

Last week’s “Inside the Executive Suite” article from Armada Corporate Intelligence picked out highlights on leadership skills from Fast Company magazine. There are a number of team development and leadership skills mentioned that fit themes we talk about here. Leadership Practices. A leader should create strategy with a team.

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BrainZooming

JULY 25, 2016

The thing is, unsuccessful employee engagement strategies are not an employee problem. It is a LEADERSHIP problem when purported employee engagement strategies are not working. We see great leaders among our clients successfully taking steps that meaningfully involve employees in shaping strategy and implementation.

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

We were facilitating report outs at a strategy planning workshop after multiple teams tackled developing high-level plans to improve various employee challenges in a relatively high-performing company. Four of the five report outs in this strategy planning workshop were delivered by female leaders in the organization.

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Tullio Siragusa

MAY 1, 2023

The Role of Enterprise Architecture in the Circular Economy Enterprise architecture (EA) refers to the practice of designing, planning, and implementing IT infrastructure and systems to support an organization’s goals and strategy. EA can serve as a bridge between these disparate teams, fostering a culture of communication and collaboration.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 8, 2018

Who should you invite to participate in an innovation strategy workshop ? We’ve written about three important strategic perspectives (general management, functional expertise, and people with creative energy) and three types of voices (traditional, challenger, and emerging) to include in any type of strategy workshop.

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