Leapfrogging

APRIL 4, 2024

Setting the Stage for Success Strategic planning offsites can be pivotal moments for your company, shaping the trajectory of your business and setting the tone for future growth. By removing distractions and dedicating time solely to strategic thinking, you create an atmosphere where creativity and big-picture thinking can thrive.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

With this view, the natural reaction is to avoid the strategic planning process or hope it goes away soon, so someone can return to daily activities full time and get work done. What a waste for the employees and the companies using strategic planning exercises in ways that cultivate this experience!

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 27, 2017

You need to know what type of company ‘we are’ today and does it need to change: are you integrators, leader, laggards, or best in class, pioneers, or fast copiers. It becomes the “living” innovation document to refer too, engagement with (and improve). This recognition equially ‘inform’ much of the innovation activity.

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BrainZooming

MAY 24, 2017

In these cases, you sign legal documents with specific parameters. “When there’s a buzz about something confidential in a company, it creates questions about what the secrets are. For example, when our company considered M&A activity, I’d receive certain questions about competitors’ market positions.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 28, 2016

We instead developed a process built around facilitating conversations among people with a big stake in company performance. Creative thinking exercises generate ideas, not facts. This switch supported a program aligning sales activities for the company’s largest accounts. knowing the decision maker) generate answers.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

After documenting the tactics, we used a Zoomference so the primary project team could efficiently and collaboratively identify timing for the six-hundred tactics in less than four hours – all online. We created a fast-paced half-day in-person workshop for a small group of sales and marketing leaders at an animal pharma company.

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Faisal Hoque

DECEMBER 10, 2020

There’s even talk of how companies are working toward “lights out” facilities where robots basically work around the clock, in the dark. Even tech giants like Microsoft—a company that would seem to be a hotbed for STEM-centric employees—sees soft skills as a vital part of the employee makeup. “As BY FAISAL HOQUE.

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Faisal Hoque

DECEMBER 10, 2020

There’s even talk of how companies are working toward “lights out” facilities where robots basically work around the clock, in the dark. Even tech giants like Microsoft—a company that would seem to be a hotbed for STEM-centric employees—sees soft skills as a vital part of the employee makeup. “As BY FAISAL HOQUE.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

When a new executive at a company faced this situation, I counseled him to instead adopt a leadership strategy where he invites the antagonist into all the planning activities for the new initiative. The expected answer is probably to keep the corporate antagonist as far away from the initiative as possible. The advice surprised him.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

A recently-opened production operation that included multiple natural breakdown points: Two companies partnering in a long-term provider-customer manufacturing operation. Go Deeper and Document. They wanted to leave the creative problem solving for later. The innovation opportunity in this example?

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BrainZooming

APRIL 25, 2016

From what she described, her company’s leadership had rushed to develop big strategy statements (such as a core purpose, vision statement, or mission statement), but was now rethinking its direction. She saw documenting as many vision statement examples as possible as a huge help to getting it right this next time.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Our priest asked during a recent homily at daily mass if we see the same type of miracles today that are documented in the Gospels. It’s about all the things I don’t want to do or would simply never do that now work out in ways I could have never imagined. We just don’t chalk them up to God anymore.

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The Inovo Group

MAY 14, 2018

Highlights: Companies make continuous bets on their future. Effective futuring that includes the ability to gain insights into long-term futures with inevitable disruptions and discontinuities needs to be a key component of a company’s strategy and innovation efforts. Bill Gates. But it was already too late.

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Boxes and Arrows

JULY 10, 2008

Agency staff (aka “outies”) must be broad-skilled and part salespeople to make their expertise and company’s value obvious to clients. Strategic thinking is also attractive, but you may want to emphasize this in your management function where vision is expected.

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Leanstack

JUNE 9, 2015

Since then, lots have been published on strategic thinking and planning. In 1998, Henry Mintzberg proposed five ways of thinking about strategy: 1. The goal isn’t to write a 30-page document but rather to outline a coarse-grained implementation plan with significant milestones. as a plan, 2. as a pattern, 3.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Trait IQ EQ Nature Cognitive Emotional Focus Problem-solving Interpersonal skills Stability Relatively static Can be developed Leaders with high IQ may excel in strategic thinking and technical skills, but those with high EQ are often better at inspiring, motivating, and connecting with their teams.

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