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Getting Ready for 2010: Planning in a Recession - Guest Post by Barrett Sydnor
Today's guest post addressing preparing for 2010 comes from Barrett Sydnor, one of the first guest authors ever on Brainzooming back in early 2008. I've worked with Barrett on various strategic planning projects over the past 15 years, including quit...
Getting Ready for 2010: 3 Real Life Planning Successes
I'm a proponent of spreading strategic thinking broadly in a company and not readily handing off strategy development to outside parties exclusively. Yet I've been a part of many examples where an outside perspective helped move strategy development ...
Getting Ready for 2010: What Have You Been Saying?
A loyal reader pointed out recently that Brainzooming has become too unwieldy, making it tough to go back and find specific posts. One possibility is using the search function on each page to search for particular topics directly in Brainzooming arti...
Go Ahead. Prove Me Wrong
Don't underestimate the tremendous motivational force of challenging someone to produce facts to try and prove you wrong. Most people like to be right and will expend at least some effort to support their point.If you can get someone to do this, you'...
Can You Handle the Truth?
During a presentation, I was highlighting the blog post on finding a strategic PITA (pain in the ass), describing how it was originally inspired by a senior person at our ad agency who never fails to dissect our ideas in painful, yet tremendously val...
Strategic Thinking Snippets - Direction and Change
Here's another installment in Strategic Thinking Snippets - ideas first shared on Twitter and now collected and arranged for Brainzooming. This Strategic Thinking Snippet installment focused on identifying strategic direction and managing through cha...
Know Your "Happy Zone"
As a kid, I was a huge baseball fan, reading anything I could on how the game could be played better. One of my favorite books was “The Science of Hitting” by Ted Williams. As one of baseball’s greatest hitters (and the last person to hit .400 ...
A Few Life Lessons - Just because . . .
Just because you can doesn't mean you have to. Just because you don't have to doesn't mean you shouldn't. Just because someone else wouldn't doesn't it isn't worth trying. Just because it hasn't worked before doesn't mean it will or won't now. Just b...
Strategy Lessons from Sports Week - Yes, I’m Bluffing . . .Don’t You Think?
Although I’ve been accused by co-workers of having a poker face, I’m not a poker player. As a result, this follow-up to yesterday’s post on bluffing is based on secondary research, not real-life poker experience. These rules, adapted from poker...
Strategy Lessons from Sports Week - Are You Bluffing?
I’ve finally quit asking an interview question about situations in which prospective job candidates would make a conscious strategic decision to bluff. While based on a real-life situation where I had to bluff during a senior executive presentation...
Strategy Lessons from Sports Week - Use What You Don't Have Wisely
The start of baseball spring training reminds me of a favorite baseball story. It’s been so long since I heard it, who knows if it’s true, but it’s so rich with strategy lessons, it almost doesn’t matter!The StoryDuring a Yankee World Series ...
Strategy Lessons from Sports Week - Strategy Gone Wild
One of this football season's most intriguing strategy stories was the Miami Dolphins’ use of the Wildcat Offense – a variation of a 1907 Pop Warner (the coach, not the youth league) offensive formation designed around multi-dimensional, Hall of ...
