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You need a why and a how, not a what, for innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

Creating a new and compelling product or service WITH the how and why in place is challenging. Doing so without a definitive why and lacking the how is almost impossible. Supplemented with a definitive "how" Nietzsche is quoted as saying "if you have the why for your life you can endure almost any how".

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Who Should Facilitate Strategic Planning? 10 Vital Characteristics

BrainZooming

It is definitely viable that a facilitator from inside the company can lead strategic planning. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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5 Employee Engagement Ideas When Turnover Is High

BrainZooming

Have them share suggestions for things they would experiment with, change, or definitely keep as is. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

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11 Boring Details for Making Strategic Planning Fun*

BrainZooming

And the asterisk on fun acknowledges we’re stretching the definition of fun to cover things nerdy strategic planners think are fun such as “mental stimulation,” “highly collaborative groups,” and “people that want to be involved in strategic planning the next time it happens.”. 11 Boring Details for Making Strategic Planning Fun*.

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Strategic Thinking Exercise – 4 Ways to Examine Brand Performance

BrainZooming

This is definitely a strategic thinking exercise idea from the Brainzooming R&D lab. But for current and future clients, don’t be surprised if some form of it starts cropping up in your strategy planning workshops! Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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Strategic Planning Exercises – 6 Ways to Organize Lists of Ideas

BrainZooming

Because of this, the list was worthless for doing what I suspect everyone hoped it would do: provide a starting point for the strategic thinking needed to back into a definition of and explanation for what the new initiative would turn out to be. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.

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Strategic Thinking – 6 Ideas to Put a List in Order

BrainZooming

Because of this, the list was worthless for doing what I suspect everyone hoped it would do: provide a starting point for the strategic thinking needed to back into a definition of and explanation for what the new initiative would turn out to be. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use.