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Glenn Brooke | September 9, 2015 | 3 Comments

Exercise Your Strategic Mind – Glenn Brooke

 

Use your wonderful gift of imagination to stretch your strategic mind. Try these suggested imagination exercises:

  • You have 1/2 of your people, time, and project funding. What becomes critically important now? What can you still deliver? How could you reframe the problem and continue to create a solution?
  • You have 10x more business/requests/sales/opportunities. What new problems will you have because your existing processes don’t scale? What could you do now to be prepared for a 10x increase or step-change scenario?
  • You now have a disability, which means you can only work 2 hours a day. What are the highest value activities for you to focus on?
  • What are 3 strengths that you or your team have, which could serve a different market or customer segment?
  • What are 2 or 3 possible disrupters in your industry? How would these change your situation?
  • You get momentous news late Friday afternoon (either good or distressing). What do you tell your group on Monday morning?
  • What changes should you make before you have to?

Can you think of other strategic imagination exercises?

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Glenn Brooke

Glenn considers leadership a craft which requires dedicated pursuit. The apprentice model (instruction + practice + associating with other craftsmen) is the time-tested way to foster the next generation of leaders. Real leaders never stop working on their craft; there are only new levels of mastery ahead. Learn more at leadershipcraft.com.

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  1. Erik Tyler says

    September 9, 2015 at 8:52 am

    Your first suggestion had me laughing, Glenn, since I am a one-man operation for now, which left me cut in half and … maybe not owing money, but still broke (since half of zero is zero, as far as funding). However, many of the others were good prompts for me. I love “what-if” questions – and I hope to have to answer some of those for real in the not-so-distant future.

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    • Glenn says

      September 9, 2015 at 11:35 am

      🙂 Half an Erik would still be a great man to have in my circle of friends.

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  2. Adam Smith says

    September 9, 2015 at 9:10 am

    Great questions, Glenn. I especially like, “What are 3 strengths that you or your team have, which could serve a different market or customer segment?” It has me thinking differently this morning… Thanks!

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