BrainZooming

APRIL 22, 2016

Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders need high-impact ways to develop employees that can provide input into strategic planning and then turn it into results. Increase focus for your team with productive strategy questions everyone can use. Actively engage stakeholders in strategy AND implementation success.

Engagement 40

Engagement Strategic Thinking Underperforming Technical Team Exercises 40

BrainZooming

MAY 6, 2016

At the 2016 Brand Strategy Conference, Antonia Dean, Director – Marketing, Brand Development, & Strategy at The Estée Lauder Companies covered the strategic thinking ideas behind creating an entrepreneurial environment in a large company. Building the Team. Expect turnover in the team. Defining Success.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Underperforming Technical Team Company Entrepreneurship 40

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

We’re happy to have them back today with an article adapted from a newsletter they published on a leadership training program Walmart is rolling out in its US stores. Walmart, a brand often immersed in debates about poor employee treatment, is piloting new training for both front-line employees and in-store managers.

Training 40

Training Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Strategy 40

BrainZooming

DECEMBER 14, 2015

If the answers to the first two questions are “no” and “yes,” respectively, are you ready to formulate a plan to change your organization’s bad habits and realize more impact from creative thinking activities? They need strategic thinkers who can develop strategy and turn it into results. – Mike Brown.

Creative Thinking 40

Creative Thinking Creativity Exercises Underperforming Technical Team 40

BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

The descriptions are purposely neither good nor bad; they simply represent ways an organization could pursue the strategy. As regular Brainzooming readers understand, we’re proponents for using structure (instead of blank pieces of paper) to make it easy for any employee to successfully contribute to developing strategy.

Strategic Thinking 40

Strategic Thinking Exercises Underperforming Technical Team Collaboration 40

Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 13, 2017

Many products fail because they don’t solve a need their customers have or because the customer doesn’t know they themselves have a need for the product. Too often the team gets all the way through building the product to find out they can’t explain the product. Also, it’s fun as heck!

Video 57

Video Conference Artificial Inteligence Underperforming Technical Team 57

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2017

No one wants to come across as lazy, uncommitted, or not a team player. and author of You First: Inspire Your Team to Grow Up, Get Along, and Get Stuff Done. “If you’re underwater and you can’t meet your commitments, you leave your team in the lurch.” Everyone complains about feeling overworked.

How To 15

How To Underperforming Technical Team Project Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

As Sutton explains in his book Good Boss, Bad Boss , research shows that two things reliably happen when you become a manager: “People start flattering you, and they stop delivering bad news to you.” Set yourself apart by being willing to share concerns and deliver bad news. First, “be nicer” to her.

Software Review 15

Software Review Underperforming Technical Team Case Study CTO 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2016

Their function is to take complex bits of data and develop a higher-order sense of them. But theory development does not require representative samples. For one client of Oxyme (the analytics firm author Rietveld co-founded) the team counted the number of dashboards available on market and customer behavior. There were 19.

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Underperforming Technical Team Data Marketing Analysis 15