BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Is your leadership team expressing its frustration with the inability to generate new insights about your brand’s strongest market opportunities? If you face these situations, The Brainzooming Group has a new eBook you need. All that in one handy, FREE Brainzooming eBook! Download our FREE eBook: Reimagining the SWOT Analysis.

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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

JUNE 22, 2017

How can you get the most mileage from the free strategic planning eBooks we regularly offer as downloads? Yet when we create new eBooks, our main goal is ensuring the content is heavy on ideas and tools you can apply to improve strategic thinking and implementation in your organization. Plus, we share it ALL THE TIME! – Mike Brown.

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Planview

JANUARY 28, 2025

In Agile environments, leadership often comes without formal authority. Tools like Planview Viz enable coaches to ensure that teams and leadership are aligned on goals and progress, fostering a shared understanding of the impact of Agile adoption.

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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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Planview

MARCH 19, 2025

Bridges the gap between high-level strategic planning and day-to-day execution, enabling leadership to track progress at every stage. Strategy-to-Execution Alignment Creates a shared vision of objectives and key results (OKRs) across business and technology teams, ensuring all stakeholders work toward common goals.

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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

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

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

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

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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

I’m scheduled for a background interview today on creating a thought leadership strategy. The interview is an outgrowth of an eBook on thought leadership. The eBook came from a workshop someone did at a conference I’ve spoken at many times. What to Say about a Thought Leadership Strategy?

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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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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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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

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

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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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

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

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

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

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

OCTOBER 23, 2017

The occasion was presenting our first strategic market plan at Yellow Transportation (whose name was Yellow but whose color was orange) to the senior leadership team. Our free “Big Strategy Statements” eBook lays out an approach to collaboratively develop smart, strategic directions that improve results!

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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

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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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

APRIL 19, 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

APRIL 3, 2018

Within that framework, here are the questions to answer so your team can most effectively represent senior leadership to the entire organization. If you’re intrigued by the possibilities, download our FREE eBook, “11 Fun Ideas for Strategic Planning.” Objectives. Yes, strategic planning can be fun.

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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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