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?” Download our FREE “Taking the No Out of InNOvation eBook to help generate extreme creativity and ideas! ” Well, here we are again, with an extra day for Leap Day.

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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 26, 2018

How is our leadership removing distractions to innovation (instead of creating them)? Which creative thinking questions from the most innovative companies will you take to your next leadership team meeting to focus the conversation on your own brand’s innovation strategy? – Mike Brown. Which ones would we accelerate?

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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

MAY 29, 2020

I also created and delivered a 6-part webinar series addressing The New Important for businesses trying to innovate and restart during the pandemic; the webinar series involved a 2 ½ hour combination of existing and new frameworks plus creating six eBooks in five weeks. The possibilities include: Webinars for your audience members.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Try asking surprising strategic planning questions to push your leadership team toward new thinking. If you’re interested in a treasure trove of strategic planning questions addressing multiple important business areas, download our eBook, The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions (The Brainzooming Group Uses.

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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

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

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

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 19, 2016

We use a diagnostic with senior leadership teams that ties to the ten innovation barriers. After leadership team members complete individual assessments, we collect and analyze the responses as input for a strategic conversation among senior leaders. You need to download our free eBook, “The Ten Big Nos to InNOvating.”

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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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Planview

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Anybody from sales to marketing comes to me with a creative request like an ad for social media, a presentation, or a piece of collateral like an ebook. The leadership does a good job of keeping that feeling. As a graphic designer, I get requests from the entire company. As a Graphic Designer, what type of meetings do you prepare for?

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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

APRIL 25, 2017

Creative Leadership – Do Idea Magnets Get a Pass on Empathy? We have free Brainzooming eBooks for you to help navigate barriers and boost innovation! Extreme Creativity – When Do You Trust a Creative Genius? Are too many bold ideas killing your creativity? 5 Ideas When an Uber-Positive Boss Crushes Creativity. Scarce resources ?

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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

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

JANUARY 5, 2018

If you’re intrigued by the possibilities, download our FREE eBook, “11 Fun Ideas for Strategic Planning.” Yes, strategic planning can be fun. if you know the right ways to liven it up while still developing solid strategies! ” Enjoy this article? Subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates.

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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

They now include: A variety of free eBooks. The Idea Magnets book on creative leadership. For those of you interested in learning more and about how you can start Brainzooming for yourself, your team, and your organization, we’ve expanded the available resources over the years.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The organization is going through a major leadership transition. Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. This Brainzooming strategy eBook features links to 600 proven questions for: Developing Strategy. Based on the results, it has a new role as a strategic planning question.

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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

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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Planview

APRIL 26, 2022

Real Agile transformation requires buy-in at every level of the organization, consistently, over a long period of time – but specifically leadership. And it requires all of leadership to manage this change within the organization as they are learning themselves. Read Next: Enterprise Agile Transformation.

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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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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

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

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

MAY 9, 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

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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Download our FREE “Taking the No Out of InNOvation eBook to help you generate extreme creativity and ideas! If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the free Brainzooming blog email updates. Boost Your Creativity with “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation”.

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Planview

JUNE 23, 2022

However, it is important for strategies and decisions to embrace the executive leadership perspective (aligning with organizational vision and priorities), and not just the technical perspective (addressing functional challenges and solving practical problems). Leadership Buy-In and Adapting Processes Top Down is Critical.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 3, 2019

Tara’s exercise prompted me to adapt the eight questions below from our free eBook, 49 Idea Magnet Questions to Attract Amazing Ideas. Related posts 21 Strategic Thinking Questions to Ask When You Have Nothing to Ask Does Your Team’s Creative Leadership Need a Boost? 8 Creative Thinking Questions to Focus Your Year.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 8, 2016

Thinking further about the leadership qualities it takes to successfully engage an innovation strategy in disguise reminded me of a litany of humility I read frequently. For a quick innovation strategy inspiration along these lines, this video is an example of doing something that doesn’t fit, but making it seems as if it does.

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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

APRIL 11, 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 agility and success.

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