Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 27, 2022

Free Downloads for Keynote Speeches, Presentations and Workshops Looking for a compelling quote for a keynote speech, workshop or presentation on any of these topics? Innovation Digital Transformation Design Change Creativity Leadership Design Thinking I’m flattered that people have been … Continue reading →

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BrainZooming

MARCH 2, 2021

His strategy opened the door to other intriguing perspectives leaders can adopt to expand their personal leadership repertoires. . 6 Innovative Leadership Possibilities that Anonymity Enables. Download the free Brainzooming guide with 8 ways to make virtual meetings efficient, engaging, and inspiring. Was afraid to address.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 5, 2018

Are you too comfortable to generate new creative ideas? Would inventing something to make you nervous align with your creative thinking formula and attract more creative ideas? Asking people what they think about my creative ideas. Taking away my most important creative resources. circa 1995). I’ve experienced it.

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Innovation can’t thrive without leadership. Innovation leadership is emerging as a primary need of today’s businesses. Does your present team contain potential innovation leadership? It isn’t enough to have an outstanding leadership team today. They may eventually be ready for greater leadership roles.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 19, 2021

Free Downloads for Keynote Speeches, Presentations and Workshops Looking for a compelling quote for a keynote speech, workshop or presentation on any of these topics? Innovation Design Change Digital Transformation Design Thinking Creativity Leadership I’m flattered that people have been … Continue reading →

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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 Getting in the Way of Creativity.

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

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. Take on leadership and responsibility for decisions.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Suppose you’re going into a meeting and taking over leadership of a team or initiative where those you will be leading have been involved and active previously. The question in each of these cases is how you use your leadership skills so you can “fake it until you make it?”. FREE Download: “Results!!!

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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

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.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 4, 2017

However, there is one more very important aspect to innovation leadership. Being a good role model for innovation, or any other key leadership competence, means being conscious of your own behavior and recognizing where you are on your own developmental journey. There is no Innovation without leadership. Innovation is not easy.

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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. – Mike Brown.

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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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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 13, 2016

One that offers the organization’s most creative people a sandbox in which they can operate. As a direction setter, you must go beyond the data and tell a compelling story about future potential that engages people more deeply and inspires them to bring their creative best. The Direction Setter Leadership Role.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 9, 2016

What are your expectations from a creative thinking workshop? That is the first question I ask the audience at a Brainzooming creative thinking workshop. 7 Expectations from Creative Thinking Workshop Training. 7 Expectations from Creative Thinking Workshop Training. What’s the life cycle of creative ideas?

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

” (available for download from Tuesday 7 Feb 2023), the outlook shows that there are potentially major problems ahead for innovation teams. And while managers already dislike creative new ideas , this feeling of unease will become even stronger as the fears over the impact of a recession grow.

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Rmukesh Gupta

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

She is the author of a recent book Creative Change , and is a faculty of many top business schools including the Wharton School, Yale School of Management and NYU’s Stern School of Business. Her paper, “ The Bias Against Creativity, ” went viral and was downloaded over 65,000 times—receiving more than 100 media mentions.

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Business and Tech

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Looking forward to 2022, we see live events making a strong comeback, but we will continue to put energy and creativity into making virtual element of hybrid events more meaningful, engaging and valuable. We will develop better virtual networking experiences that are creative and engaging, while substantive and valuable.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 30, 2019

The following tips should be part of your hackathon innovation strategy: Get executive buy-in because, without the active support of organizational leadership, even great ideas have little chance of being pursued. During the hackathon itself, teams create the magic and innovation, and it is the most exciting and creative phase.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In education, flexibility, creativity, and thoughtful application are rewarded. The university’s leadership, however, realized that imposing unilateral cuts, or new revenue measures, would alienate students and faculty and also cut them out of a process to which they needed to be committed.

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IdeaScale

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Packaging your offerings in creative ways. If you want to learn more about putting innovation and crowdsourcing to work in nonprofits, IdeaScale invites you to download our Crowdsourcing and Nonprofits white paper. Finding paying customers for your nonprofit. Exploring partnerships.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Today I am focusing on LinkedIn inspirations for creative clicks; I get inspiration there every day. As always with creative clicks, click on the headlines in these LinkedIn Inspirations to link to the original article. Being a HUGE egghead, it inspires me to get a dose of the science behind creative thinking exercises.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Try asking surprising strategic planning questions to push your leadership team toward new thinking. While conventional wisdom can speed decision making and prevent you from repeatedly making the same mistakes, it also is a powerful weapon to stand in the way of new thinking, innovation, and applying creativity to business strategy.

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Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This could include factors such as engagement with your website, response to email campaigns, and content downloads. Be creative and think about what would be most relevant and valuable for your target audience. Consider the different criteria that you could use to score leads, and what values you could assign to each.

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BrainZooming

MAY 9, 2017

Take on leadership and responsibility for decisions. Today is the day to download your copy of 321 GO! Creative Thinking: What Is the Right Size for a Brainstorming Group? You’ll learn ways to help your team: Move forward even amid uncertainty. Efficiently move from information gathering to action.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Anything about faith I try to link to strategy, creativity, and innovation, all pillar topics for our work and the blog. I’ll share real-life examples that touch on strategy, creativity, innovation, and EVEN social media and content marketing. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 15, 2017

This involves working with the organization’s leadership team to identify important factors shaping strategic decisions. Take on leadership and responsibility for decisions. Today is the day to download your copy of 321 GO! The group discussion determines the ultimate location for each idea on the grid.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 4, 2016

That would definitely take extreme creativity ! 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. Looking for Ways to Develop a Successful.

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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. Mike Brown Founder of The Brainzooming Group, and an expert on strategy, creativity, and innovation. He asked an intriguing question. Currently, certain people are underutilized.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

We routinely ask those of you downloading Brainzooming strategy and innovation eBooks to share – if you are willing – the opportunities and challenges you are facing at the time. Creative Thinking Skills – 5 People Vital to Critical Thinking, Literally. Strategic Thinking – Exercises and Tools for Creative Thinking and Strategy.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 8, 2018

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. FREE Download: 13 Exercises for Disruptive Innovation Strategy. Via Shutterstock.

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BrainZooming

MAY 30, 2017

As you and your leadership team announce the new innovation strategy, your employees have questions. Instead, give your team creative thinking questions appropriately sized to the innovation you are seeking. FREE Download: 13 Exercises for Disruptive Innovation Strategy. That is not yet completely clear yet.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 25, 2017

Constantly seeking leadership approval, even when it’s not necessary. Download your free copy of 321 GO today and start turning your great plans into results! – Mike Brown. Waiting for inspiration before launching. Taking up more time gathering information that will not change results.

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Be-novative

MARCH 30, 2021

The problem: The protagonist of our session is an expert in Leadership team effectiveness offering Dialogic Team coaching solutions to teams of all-size organisations. A study from the Leadership Quarterly found that as few as 15% of teams are considered effective, compare this to 80% of teams with ineffective leaders.

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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. FREE Download: “Results!!! – Mike Brown.

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IdeaScale

DECEMBER 27, 2016

These insights can become the inspiration sparks of your group’s creative thinking. In the next installment of the Leading Innovation series, we’ll dive deep into systems and processes with the architect leadership role. If you’d like to skip ahead, you can download the entire chapter today. Begin with the End .

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