Leapfrogging

MARCH 14, 2025

Whether you are working on enhancing emotional intelligence or strategic thinking, AI provides the tools necessary for timely and effective leadership development. Learn more about the role of AI in emotional intelligence in our article on AI and emotional intelligence. Lead Successful Strategy Projects!

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 1, 2025

Build a successful practice Get high billable rates Get expert consulting tools & guidance Learn More Implementing AI for Organizational Success Utilizing AI to Identify Leadership Gaps AI can be a powerful tool in identifying leadership gaps within your organization. Join the Consultant's Master Class!

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 14, 2025

Continuously learning and growing. Sentiment Analysis AI analyzes team morale and engagement, providing real-time feedback for leaders to act upon. Virtual Assistants AI-powered assistants manage routine tasks, freeing leaders to focus on strategic initiatives. Responding to unforeseen challenges with resilience.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Alignment of an organizations strategy and innovation approach is essential and this needs to flow and connect from the top, but I have often felt there has not been a suitable engagement platform to gather around and work through to build a robust, well-connected innovation capability.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2023

Strategic thinking : Participants should be able to think strategically and understand the broader context of the collaboration. Regular updates and feedback mechanisms should be established to ensure everyone is informed and engaged.

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Leapfrogging

MAY 8, 2024

It encompasses the skills and insights a person acquires through active engagement and reflection on real-world challenges. It allows you, as an executive, to draw upon a repertoire of learned behaviors and strategies that are essential for tackling the unpredictable nature of leadership roles.

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BrainZooming

JULY 6, 2016

Whether strategic planning is months away or close at hand, however, it’s always smart to get a head start tackling big strategic thinking questions that warrant in-depth consideration. 9 Big Strategic Thinking Questions to Start Addressing Now. 9 Big Strategic Thinking Questions to Start Addressing Now.

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CMOE

MARCH 17, 2025

Without strategic thinking, leaders risk falling into short-term fixes that fail to drive long term sustainable success. Strategic thinking is a skill that can be developed through study, practice, reflection and deliberate effort. How Do You Start Thinking Strategically?

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BrainZooming

APRIL 19, 2017

One way to look at your branding strategy to identify new value opportunities is to ask this strategic thinking question: What mistakes are customers prone to make before and after they work with us, and how can we eliminate (maybe even guarantee to eliminate) any of those mistakes? That’s a huge question.

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 10, 2024

It is not just about sharing information; it is about nurturing a culture of learning and discovery, by combining the talent and need for discovery. The fourth thread, competitive positioning, teaches us that thriving in this dynamic environment requires strategic thinking and new visions.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 27, 2017

A good strategy, well outlined should encourage innovation and gain engagement but it can equally determine how we break down our imposed boundaries by its strategic intent, to encourage exploring and extending on what we know into the what we need to know. Is this because innovation is not at the core of the business as it should be?

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Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 26, 2023

It was not just about sharing information; it was about nurturing a culture of learning and discovery. The fourth thread, competitive positioning, taught us that thriving in this dynamic environment required strategic thinking. It was a dance where every move mattered, and strategic partnerships were the secret to success.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 7, 2017

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. Strategic Thinking Success – 3 Critical Thinking Perspectives.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

To learn more about initiating this shift, you might consider exploring resources on helping executives change mindset. Importance of Strategic Thinking for Senior Executives Strategic thinking is an indispensable element for senior executives. To develop a growth mindset, commit to lifelong learning.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

To learn more about initiating this shift, you might consider exploring resources on helping executives change mindset. Importance of Strategic Thinking for Senior Executives Strategic thinking is an indispensable element for senior executives. To develop a growth mindset, commit to lifelong learning.

Strategic Thinking 100

Strategic Thinking Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Technical Review 100

IdeaScale

JULY 4, 2017

Achieve bigger innovation results through helping others learn and develop their innovation and ideation skill for the first time. After all, due to the rapid pace of change, the skills critical to your success are innovation skills : creativity, critical thinking, communication, strategic thinking, and problem solving.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

For more insights into how a strategic mindset can augment leadership capabilities, consider exploring strategic thinking for leaders , a resource designed to broaden your perspective on leadership strategies. Learn from Challenges : View challenges as opportunities to grow rather than obstacles that limit you.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

For more insights into how a strategic mindset can augment leadership capabilities, consider exploring strategic thinking for leaders , a resource designed to broaden your perspective on leadership strategies. Learn from Challenges : View challenges as opportunities to grow rather than obstacles that limit you.

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Strategic Thinking Leadership Trends Culture 100

BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

7 Strategic Thinking Questions When Things Aren’t Working. When things took an unexpected turn the other day, I mentally flew through various strategic thinking questions trying to comes up with ideas to adjust what we were doing. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

The Importance of Strategic Thinking In the ever-evolving business landscape, the ability to anticipate changes and craft effective strategies is invaluable. Leaders with a strategic mindset can transcend day-to-day operational thinking and focus on long-term objectives.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 29, 2024

The Importance of Strategic Thinking In the ever-evolving business landscape, the ability to anticipate changes and craft effective strategies is invaluable. Leaders with a strategic mindset can transcend day-to-day operational thinking and focus on long-term objectives.

Strategy 100

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BrainZooming

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Here’s the strategic thinking question I saw in that moment: Where are your mirrors? 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Create Improved Results. Creating Strategic Impact” Leaders are looking for powerful ways to engage strong collaborators to shape shared visions. What’s your mirror? – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 20, 2016

As in, “We’ve learned from experience that we don’t want them drug into other tasks they might be able to contribute to if that causes performance and timeliness to suffer.” I asked them to engage in some strategic thinking about innovation opportunities for the company. ” Makes sense.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 11, 2017

The topic was trust, and how people that grew up in negative home environments with crappy parents can learn to trust and not trust the right people. I jotted down the questions since I saw them as a strong strategic thinking exercise. A Strategic Thinking Exercise for Determining Trustworthiness. Innovation.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 24, 2023

The innovation team will consist of experts in various fields, including technology, design, marketing, and finance but will not be mutually exclusive but open, encouraging and seeking consistent engagement and alignment across the organization and beyond.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 31, 2020

Facing a complete business shutdown, our team used a combination of strategic thinking and real-time course correction to stay engaged with and attempt to re-win the customers we couldn’t currently serve. Engage and Re-Engage Customers. Remember, engaging and re-winning customers is only partly about messaging.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

If you have the right people present , and they are in a chatty mood, how can you morph the gathering into a strategic conversation? One way is by introducing strategic thinking questions that steer meandering conversations into strategic conversations. 9 Strategic Thinking Questions to Start Strategic Conversations.

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BrainZooming

APRIL 5, 2016

It seems ridiculous to help a company become better at strategic thinking and marketing without being allowed to tell them how to do it. Strategic Thinking Exercises – 3 Responses to New Ideas. The answer could suggest their strategic thinking wasn’t effective in this situation.

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Paul Hobcraft

JULY 9, 2023

The final fourth post is about the appeal, interest, growing engagement, and judging outcomes. This final post of the four-part series on cross-sector innovation ecosystem collaborations, it emphasizes the importance of building interest and engagement by creating a compelling value proposition for potential collaborators.

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BrainZooming

MARCH 2, 2016

9 Strategic Thinking Questions for Helping Teams Execute Strategy. When it comes to helping teams execute strategy, we recommend leaders ask themselves these strategic thinking questions before convening the team to launch a new initiative. 10 Keys to Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Strategic Results.

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BrainZooming

JANUARY 11, 2016

Here’s an idea for a new strategic thinking exercise that can be a big help. 4 Ways to Examine Brand Performance as a Strategic Thinking Exercise. This is definitely a strategic thinking exercise idea from the Brainzooming R&D lab. 10 Lessons for Engaging Your Employees to Create Stronger Results.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

As we worked on strategic thinking exercises to explore the company’s future vision and user experience, the change management strategy vocabulary the group used was conventional, unemotional, and lacking innovative thinking. Lesson learned. Want to learn more about that process? – Mike Brown.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

During in-person and online strategic planning workshops , we regularly use a strategic thinking exercise that helps leadership groups quickly identify a shared future vision statement. Pushing Back on a Strategic Thinking Exercise. An Alternative Strategic Thinking Exercise to Develop a Vision Statement.

Strategic Thinking 40

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 10, 2017

Organizations need to pick up the pace, learn to accept a greater risk, experimentation and rapid adjustment on the new knowledge flowing in to build the final outcome to the needs of the market /customer. They need to (re)learn this and build it into their systems and often this realization comes too late.

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BrainZooming

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

We have been working with a client that had done a lot of strategic thinking about a new initiative. Those are six starting places to use when you are doing strategic thinking about big lists. The thing is, they had done the hard strategic thinking and already had all the raw material they needed.

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BrainZooming

DECEMBER 9, 2015

From a facilitation standpoint, it was the most arduous couple of days of going through strategic thinking exercises I recall. With groups changing out every few hours, there was a continual, tight window to get all the input we’d need to build out a strategic plan and timeline for our client’s strategic initiative.

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BrainZooming

JUNE 26, 2018

Talking with one city’s representatives about strategies to sell-in a broadband recommendation with voters, they asked whether it is okay to engage its citizens after city leadership develops a recommendation. Engage your audience in collaborative strategic planning earlier than later. It involves more constraints.

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