How do you strategize and implement through uncertain times in your organization? Surviving organizations in this post-pandemic world have had to improve and strengthen their abilities in leading through confusion, change, and wildly dynamic market dynamics. Figuring Out Your Direction in Uncertain Times The Brainzooming eBook, Figuring Out Your...

Do you dread strategy meetings, especially the ones without any fun strategic planning activities? Really, we’re among friends, so you can be completely truthful in your answer: Do you REALLY, REALLY DREAD strategy meetings? Of course, you dread them. Every executive dreads strategic planning. I know I do. The reason is while it is important for...

What types of metrics should support a strategic plan’s implementation? During a large organization’s visioning initiative, the chief executive demanded a new monitoring approach with stronger and sharper metrics to link implementation to results and allocate future resources. Selecting the best approach was easy for us. Brainzooming always recommends...

Preparing for a three-day, in-person client strategy planning workshop, I imagined strategic thinking questions we’d use based on the original agenda’s strategic topics. The focus and agenda morphed several times, though. The direction changes impacted our opportunity to use the questions as originally envisioned. We never want to let a newish list...

We’ve had more people find the Brainzooming blog through looking for fun strategic planning than any other topic. As one of our largest clients, who had never heard of Brainzooming before her initial online search, said: “When we looked for someone who did fun strategic planning, Brainzooming was the only one who had anything about it. We ended our...

A friend who owns a design and marketing agency asked me to talk with his team at the start of their strategic offsite meeting. The agency has many creative ideas for things to do but lacks the bandwidth to implement them all. That’s why he wanted me to share ways to make smart strategic decisions for prioritizing ideas and moving from concepts to implementation....