There’s a meme — perhaps you know it — in which two stick figures are trying very hard to make plans to get together. Reviewing their calendars, they trade offers and counteroffers until finally they embrace, tearfully, saying, “It was so nice knowing you!” and “I’ll never forget you!”
Tags: Creativity, Brainzooming, Humor, Collaboration, friendships
I delivered a Brainzooming workshop on “Budget-Extending Social Content Strategy” at the Social Media Strategies Summit this week. We had more than forty attendees, which is a lot for a three-hour, interactive workshop. We adjusted our approach to maximize the interaction among the participants. During the time together, we worked through various Brainzooming tools to develop and implement social content strategy that is smart online and drives results for a brand.
Tags: career strategy, career advice, Communication, Compilations, Performance, Tools, Career Challenges, Brainzooming, Collaboration, Strategic Thinking, Implementation, Career
I am not a big Rudy Giuliani fan. Recent personal events, however, have me thinking about two messages from a closing keynote Rudy Giuliani delivered at a customer conference I produced back in my Fortune 500 days.
Tags: Strategic Planning, Performance, Brainzooming, Collaboration, Strategic Thinking, rudy giuliani
I’m in the midst of developing new themes for the Idea Magnets webcast I’m hosting for the American Marketing Association next week (And btw, have you signed up for the webcast yet? If not, here’s where you can register for Idea Magnets).
Tags: Creativity, Strategy, Tools, creative thinking, Brainzooming, Idea Magnets, Collaboration
We talk all the time with business executives about the importance of more people in their organizations developing strategic thinking skills. Some understand right away why this is beneficial. Others wrestle with the idea that something sounding like strategy would get out of the hands of senior management. The typical objection is if people throughout the organization are thinking about strategy, they either
Tags: Strategy, Performance, Tools, Brainzooming, Insights, strategic thinkers, Collaboration, creating strategic impact, Strategic Thinking, senior management, Implementation
My office is filled with blogging notebooks full of potential ideas for future blog posts. On our Christmas trip to Western Kansas, I must have taken 5 or 6 notebooks, plus Word documents full of additional blog idea starters in the hopes of building a cushion of completed blog posts again. While a cache of blog topic ideas typically yields time efficiency benefits, having blog topics laying around can also be a creative drag at times.
Tags: Creativity, creative idea, western kansas, Communication, Social media, Performance, topic idea, Tools, innovation Excellence, Brainzooming, PowerPoint, blog, christmas, Innovation, topic ideas, live tweeting, bloggers, organizational creativity, Collaboration, blogger, Strategic Thinking, creative ideas, creative block
In a recent TalentZoo.com post called “Thirsting for Originality,” author Danny Goldgeiger addressed the perceived similarity of a Super Bowl ad for Coca-Cola and a nine-year old ad from Israel for a chocolate milk product. Danny G. wrestles with the possibility that wide access to media makes it more, rather than less, likely similar ideas may show up multiple places.
Tags: Creativity, Competitive Strategy, Social media, sharing ideas, commercials, Tools, Super Bowl, Brainzooming, Marketing, advertising, Coca-Cola, Innovation, plagiarism, Collaboration, copying
In early May, a TweetDeck search on “creative” tweets showed several referencing a Creative unConference in New York. I tweeted to attendees asking for a guest blogger to write about their experience presenting at an event where there’s not really a pre-planned schedule.
Part of it was professional curiosity since I’m chairing the American Marketing Association Market Research Conference in October, and we’ve discussed how to incorporate more attendee-driven content. The other part was a sincere interest in all of us learning more about these types of emerging events.
Tags: Diversity, Guest author, Communication, Events, Twitter, Branding, Brainzooming, Innovation, Collaboration
Here’s a variation on the 4 p.m. List approach with a slightly dishonest implementation method.
Tags: Special week, decision making, Tools, Brainzooming, Collaboration, Strategic Thinking, Implementation
