Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2022

Instead of brainstorming about promotions or marketing, you could ask your team: why do we sell compact cars? Janet Dell is President and COO of Freeman, where she leads all Freeman business operations across the globe. Focus on the Why. Let’s say you own a car dealership and sales for compact cars are declining.

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CEO Blog

MAY 3, 2011

The energizing high that comes with change and brainstorming new ideas is fleeting. The positive effects of this dynamo board member were temporary, like a drug that wore off to reveal reality pounding at the door until the dynamo stirred up the troops again and the cycle started over. Then he rolled his eyes.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 18, 2010

I am here to brainstorm, help with obstacles, think clearly about opportunities, handle rejection, and help you think factually without all the emotion. And rather than be judgmental, the profiling should help the client understand how they operate and boost their confidence in who they are. To get you to take action. Unported License.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 13, 2020

These leaders operate from core values of partnership and participation. Redeploying people to revenue-building positions. Words like, “our people are our most important resource” now prove to be empty rhetoric or compassionate reality. None of us have ever been through a global pandemic like this before.

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Tim Milburn

MARCH 7, 2012

It can be as brief as a micro session on effective brainstorming (before your next brainstorming session) to multi-day training sessions and everything in between. If you’ve been operating in a culture in which creativity has not been valued, recognizing creative effort will be even more critical. This can take many forms.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 2, 2016

Now I’m not talking about the power of positive thinking – assume you’ll succeed and you will kind of stuff. We can fall into a pattern of operating within the same set of assumptions over and over because we continually see things with the same perspective. Bring outsiders into a brainstorming session.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 6, 2021

Liz writes: “ Do you find yourself reserving your input in meetings until after your team has shared or brainstormed? Data is important, don’t get me wrong, but it is only one side of the coin driving innovation and operational success. Marcella Bremer of Positive Culture contributed Relationship before virtual results.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2013

If you operate a home décor company that strives to connect to style-savvy urban hipsters but your website is cluttered, and very UN-edgy, you’re going to be perceived as anything but hip. By brainstorming and executing new ways to effectively communicate your unique offering, you’ll be in a better position to grow your bottom line.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2019

The roots of crowdsourcing can be traced as far back as the early 18th century, when the British government sought help from members of the public to develop the best way to measure a ship’s longitudinal position. Does your business suffer “blindness” to problems relating to your operations and its industry as a whole?

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 30, 2020

Why is positivity diminishing and hostility, stress, and depression increasing? When we changed the norm and they began to express the positive beliefs they had for each other, the entire culture of the team shifted. Or, “We all agree, everyone is operations is ancient and smells like moth balls.”. The Rise of Anxiety.

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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

Maintains a positive and professional tone in all communication. Acts as a positive role model for effective communication within the organization. Even if you’re not in a formal leadership position, you can still demonstrate leadership qualities in your work and make a meaningful impact on your team and your organization.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 12, 2024

Flexible pods for focused work, vibrant hubs for brainstorming, and cozy nooks for quiet contemplation – each space designed to match the needs of the moment. This could include implementing business positions around improved DEI and ESG, as well as the integration of new technology like AI.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 11, 2012

Concentration), Are you positive? It’s like your “mental operating software…a mental blueprint of what’s possible for you.” Brainstorm regularly. Reynolds recommends the SCORE technique created by Jim Fannin. Before you begin a new task, ask yourself: Are you working toward your goals? Self-Discipline), Are you focused?

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Nathan Magnuson

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

When each individual comes up with different good ideas, the operating environment quickly gets complicated. When an organization’s guiding vision exists and is clear, good ideas drive positive change. Brainstorm: don’t just evaluate each idea as it comes. It’s likely you’ve seen this before.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 26, 2010

Your best chance of having creative, innovative initiatives will occur with behaviors that: Encourage curiosity: Ask open ended questions, encourage forums where it is easy and safe to brainstorm, and model curiosity for others on your staff. You can always speak up if you have to later. IMO, there are 2 keys to getting there.

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LDRLB

MAY 13, 2014

It talks about the 4 underlying key leadership styles and visionary, operator, processer, synergists that determine which stage an organization settles into. They tend to work very closely with what I call operators, that’s the second natural style. Operators are the symbolic opposite of visionaries. Same for the operator.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The act of reflecting can us to become aware of our past actions in order to impact the future in a positive way. For every decision, there are often positive results and less-than-positive results. I found your suggestion of reflecting on prior events or decisions that had a positive outcome very beneficial.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 6, 2013

The team then hosted a brainstorming event with the entire company on how to encourage innovation at Geneca. We made a clear decision to emphasize the positive aspects of each presentation and to encourage the finalists to continue working on their ideas. Operational Strategy. Bring in the Shark Tank. Competitive Landscape.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 21, 2017

To quickly set the scene, I was the SVP of Operations for a 1,100 employee cable television company based in 4 states in the Rocky Mountain west. With the reconnaissance behind me, my team and I started to actively brainstorm about our values list, while at the same time continuing to tinker with our operations machine.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Paula joined us as VP of business operations, and we’ve been a tight team ever since. They’d started their company together, but just as positive momentum was building, the other guy decided to leave. Then brainstorm ways you can achieve those needs. But it didn’t just happen. Explore what each party wants or needs.

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Change Starts Here

JANUARY 8, 2013

For more than 100 years, United Illuminating provided electricity to its customers in Connecticut through distributed operations. Later in the workshop, the team brainstormed ways they could influence the transitions. The United Illuminating Story. How could they ensure service continuity? The move project came in under budget.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

This causes you to operate out of the primal, least creative part of your brain. This type of thinking is one in which your brain operates in a looser manner, searching to make connections between different parts of your brain versus operating in the established neuropaths followed in the “focused-thinking” state.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

If you then chart risk on the opposite axis then you will want the negative to be represented by a 1 and the positive (or no risk) represented by a 5. Describe the decision that your trying to make and then begin scribing the positive or negative or undecided and get a calculation at the end of the exercise.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

If you then chart risk on the opposite axis then you will want the negative to be represented by a 1 and the positive (or no risk) represented by a 5. Describe the decision that your trying to make and then begin scribing the positive or negative or undecided and get a calculation at the end of the exercise.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Unlike a business, your personal brand doesn't have hours of operation, it simply is 24/7/365. Graham Keen "Inspirational CEO/CFO turned positive-psychologist resiliently transforming businesses & financial performance." I have a documented track record of business development, operational planning, and leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2012

People come from different locations to the Innovation Center for "ideation" (brainstorming), decision-making, and planning. It's a positive virus. In a similar way, some companies have implemented "daily huddles" and "rounding" as ways to bring everyone together face-to-face to review operations, share information, and solve problems.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Embrace the positives. ” Dillon recommends trying to embrace the open office concept by focusing on the positives, “the bonding,” and downplaying the negatives, “the occasional TMI.” Investigate private spaces in your office where you can think, write, and brainstorm free of distraction.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

Here are three ways that clients in my practice have reappraised their stress and used it to propel positive changes: Reconceive essential relationships. As he rethought these relationships, he transformed the monthly executive meetings from a battleground into a collaborative brainstorming session on opportunities for the company.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

They were bolder, operating from what we called an adventurous mindset. When we are brainstorming ideas to other people’s problems, we’re inspired; we have a free flow of ideas to spread out on the table without judgment, second-guessing, or overthinking.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2017

” To get into the right mindset, Steenburgh recommends reflecting on your past positive experiences as a customer. ” Be “flexible” and willing to brainstorm, says Edinger. “I needed to get a sense of the broader macroeconomic environment George was operating in,” he says.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Instead, we bring people into different contexts — removed from typical day-to-day company operations — that can serve as a metaphor for what customers experience and therefore jolt employees into a more empathetic stance. Early signs have been positive, with increases in sales conversion and first call resolution.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

The Goodwill model benefits the global community because of the positive environmental impact of diverting two billion pounds of goods from landfills each year. Each agency operates our stores that collect donated goods and uses the revenues to fund job-training and placement programs in their communities.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

These figures were similar at other tech companies, most of which had fewer than 20% of their technical positions filled by women and had low representation of black and Hispanic employees. The percentage of technical positions filled by women at Yelp in the U.S. For instance, in 2014 only 10% of Yelp’s engineers were female.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

Collaboration is better not only among the reps selling into different parts of that customer organization but also across the product and marketing teams charged with building and positioning broader solutions for the customer. Culture That Drives Performance. An HBR Insight Center. Creating a Culture of Unconditional Love.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2013

At Fortune''s recent Brainstorm Tech Conference, retired General Stanley McChrystal. observed that technology had fundamentally changed how America''s special operations command managed its special forces warriors. The General recognized that these technologies were better used to empower rather than to second guess.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2012

Many people in traditional marketing roles and organizations may not realize they're operating within a dead paradigm. Companies should position their social media efforts to replicate as much as possible this community-oriented buying experience. But they are. The evidence is clear. First, buyers are no longer paying much attention.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

Recognizing the potential for friction, he first brainstormed with his team different ways of approaching and working with the "competing" colleague. Another director wanted to enlist help from a key rival in another division, but understood that the rival might feel threatened.

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