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

MARCH 30, 2017

Along with the recap, Inside the Executive Suite offered sixteen strategic thinking questions inspired by the Fanatics case study that you can use to explore agile strategy options within your own organization. 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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BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

That doesn’t mean leadership should spell out everything. Articulating Your Strategic Innovation Direction in an Understandable Way. Strategic Thinking Questions to Identify What Matters for a Brand. Workplace Diversity – The Why, Who, and How of Strategic Thinking. 4 Encourages Change. Scarce resources ?

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

What strategic thinking skills are important in helping find agreement for action amid a big, unstructured conversation? 5 Strategic Thinking Skills to Lead Groups to Action. Here are five strategic thinking skills you can employ in comparable group situations: Listen for verbs. Verbs suggest action.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Looking for ways to spice up your organization’s strategic planning process before you lock into the same old strategy ideas shaped by your senior team’s conventional wisdom? Try asking surprising strategic planning questions to push your leadership team toward new thinking. Don’t settle for boring strategic planning.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

You can apply these creative thinking questions to trigger your own brand’s strategic thinking on innovation strategy: Strategy. How is our leadership removing distractions to innovation (instead of creating them)? Download our FREE eBook: The 600 Most Powerful Strategic Planning Questions. Innovation.

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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. . They develop from actively living a varied, diverse life.

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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?” 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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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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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

DECEMBER 4, 2017

This behavior obscures looking at their areas and the entire organization strategically, comprehensively, and with a smart investment perspective. If you’re interested in changing the strategic disconnect of budget meetings – whether you are in finance and accounting or not – we have a guide! 3 Ways to Fix Budget Meetings. Mike Brown.

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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

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

JANUARY 3, 2019

And that’s always the goal with strong set of creative thinking questions: to push you to explore important (often overly-familiar) areas more deeply and with fresh thinking. 8 Creative Thinking Questions to Focus Your Year. Mike is a frequent speaker on innovation, strategic thinking, and social media.

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BrainZooming

JULY 19, 2016

We use a diagnostic with senior leadership teams that ties to the ten innovation barriers. The first step in the brief strategic thinking exercise has individual leaders assess the presence of the organization’s roadblocks. You need to download our free eBook, “The Ten Big Nos to InNOvating.” Tackling Innovation Barriers.

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BrainZooming

MAY 23, 2017

This is the reason we are emphatic about having both line and functional leaders participate in strategic planning activities for functional departments. 2 Strategic Thinking Questions for Strategic Planning Activities in a Matrix Organization. Our department will drive _? Our department will enable _?

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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.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 15, 2017

With more time, we frequently develop a decision support tool for a client to use in prioritizing strategic opportunities. This involves working with the organization’s leadership team to identify important factors shaping strategic decisions. In the new Brainzooming strategy eBook 321 GO! ,

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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

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

A search on the Brainzooming blog to track down content for an updated strategic thinking presentation uncovered it. 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!

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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. Strategic Planning Process. Strategic Thinking – Exercises and Tools for Creative Thinking and Strategy. Innovation. Implementation.

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BrainZooming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

A 13-Point Strategic Change Management Checklist. Strategic Thinking about What to Keep and What to Creatively Change. Why Change Is Hard – 3 Strategic Thinking Ideas for Making Change Easy. Creating Change with Less Leadership and Information than You’d Like. Confronting Individuals’ Change Challenges.

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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

MARCH 23, 2017

What the prospective client wants to achieve: “We’ve sold-in a specific strategic planning process methodology, so that’s the approach we need to take.”. The best way to make it happen: We’re proposing arranging our strategic planning exercises within the framework they have already advanced.

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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. 10 Keys to Engaging Employees to Improve Strategic Results.

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BrainZooming

AUGUST 9, 2016

On a personal basis, certain strategic leadership basics are a good place to start adjusting your attitude and growth as a strategic leader. We offer a wide variety of strategic thinking exercises to change perspectives and look at day-to-day and longer-term problems in novel ways. Limited innovation perspectives

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BrainZooming

MARCH 21, 2017

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. They also wanted a sense of when and why you should think creatively.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 11, 2017

We wanted a strategic target to align IT strategy and innovation initiatives to support the organization in realizing its overall vision. We instead used previous exposure, strategic thinking exercises with the IT team and others, and strategic business sense to describe what it seemed a corporate target would encompass.

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BrainZooming

MAY 16, 2017

Typical complaints about a strategic planning process. If you have a role in strategic planning, do any of these describe your situation? You have a strategic plan completed by a small senior leadership team. The executive director, on the other hand, is not inclined to want to complete a strategic plan.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 12, 2017

Here is a recommendation to make it happen through taking on three different strategic roles. . 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.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Your innovation expertise could also be in training, executing of innovation Strategy and Models, project management, and leadership. The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth. Marianne Carr.

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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! For organizational innovation success, contact The Brainzooming Group to help your team be more successful by rapidly expanding strategic options and creating innovative growth strategies.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 18, 2016

Programs where leadership is solidly on-board. The right combination of outside perspectives and productive strategic thinking exercises enables your brand to ideate, prioritize, and propel innovative growth. Download this free, concise eBook to : Identify your organization’s innovation profile. Slam dunks.

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 9, 2017

I dropped a variation of the question into an online collaboration workshop for a client’s strategic planning process. Based on the results, it has a new role as a strategic planning question. The organization is going through a major leadership transition. Photo by Emily Morter on Unsplash.

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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.

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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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