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Best Posts: Spring 2021
Another quarter, another selection of Deliberate's best posts on LinkedIn, including two series: Broken Frames and Bad Paintings. Enjoy!...

kevin paylow
Jul 5, 20212 min read


Best Posts: Winter 2021
Hello 2021! Here are the top posts from the first quarter: In-Person events are back… Sort of We had our first live Corporate...

kevin paylow
Apr 16, 20212 min read


Best Posts: Autumn 2020
2020 was a long, weird year that required innovation and adjusting presentations to Zoom. Here are the top LinkedIn posts from the...

kevin paylow
Jan 2, 20211 min read
Best Posts: Spring 2020
Wow. What a year 2020 has been: COVID-19, massive protests, the collapse of the oil market, work from home as the norm, toilet paper...

kevin paylow
Jul 1, 20201 min read


Best Posts: Q4 2019
We shifted to sharing our latest thinking on social media. And great stuff is getting posted All. The. Time. Here’s a selection of the...

kevin paylow
Dec 21, 20192 min read


Symptom of a sick message strategy: Same basic content as your competitor
If you changed the branding in your slide deck, could it pass as a presentation given by your competitor? Why this is a problem, confirmatio
Kevin Paylow
Jan 29, 20191 min read


Offense, Defense, Advocacy During a Downturn
"...offensive operations, often times, is the surest, if not the only (in some cases) means of defence." - George Washington, 1799...
Kevin Paylow
Jan 3, 20192 min read


Top Posts of 2018
Remember the old fable of the ant & the grasshopper? I felt like the Social Media Ant this year. Here are my Top 12 posts of 2018 &
Kevin Paylow
Dec 27, 20181 min read


It doesn't have to be pretty to generate interest: Deliberate Consulting art
Drawings, even crappy ones like mine, often grab more attention than stock photos. Here's some of my art from the last 18 months or so.
Kevin Paylow
Dec 10, 20181 min read


My Innovation Heroes
Innovators tend to be fun, provide new perspectives, and play a much longer game. I've learned a lot from them. Here are some of my Inno
Kevin Paylow
Oct 15, 20181 min read


What is worth a million words?
"A picture is worth a thousand words" and "immersive environments are worth a thousand pictures." That's because the
Kevin Paylow
Aug 19, 20181 min read


Making your audience feel like they're part of the solution
I received a great question at an event last week: "How do I engage the audience in co-creating the solution during my presentations?&q
Kevin Paylow
Jul 27, 20182 min read


Innovation Funnels - Look Familiar?
If you had to draw YOUR organization's innovation funnel, how would it REALLY look? Here are a few I've seen:
Kevin Paylow
Jun 19, 20183 min read


Three things to keep in mind if you want to pick the right idea to pursue
The rush to pursue an idea often leaves out consideration of better ideas or solutions. Here are a few tips to select the right ideas to pur
Kevin Paylow
Mar 6, 20182 min read


Competitive Parity
Balance competitive advantage and competitive parity in your strategy and innovation efforts.
Kevin Paylow
Dec 7, 20172 min read


Do you really need more ideas?
The lack of (good) ideas usually is NOT the problem. If you don't have the culture, leadership, and structure in place, it's difficu
Kevin Paylow
Nov 28, 20171 min read


Just because the competition CAN do something doesn't mean they will. What WON'T they do?
Just because the competition CAN do something doesn't mean they WILL. Ask yourself "What WON'T our competitors do?" as you
Kevin Paylow
Nov 14, 20172 min read


That won't work here!!!
A simple question can result in a remarkably different discussion when someone says "That won't work here!"
Kevin Paylow
Sep 29, 20172 min read


What is your MVM?
To advance your idea, develop your Minimum Viable Message. By that I mean deliberately paring down your message to the bare minimum ingredie
Kevin Paylow
Sep 21, 20172 min read


Improved engagement, understanding and decisions are the results of playing Innovation Games®
Our company's local Account Leader was horrified to hear we intended to play an Innovation Game at the meeting. "You can't do t
Kevin Paylow
Aug 8, 20172 min read
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