Solo Brainstorming?
An interesting post appeared earlier this month on Harvard Business Review’s Blog Network. The title of the post, authored by Andrew O’Brien, was: “Sometimes, It’s Better to Brainstorm Alone.” If, by...
View ArticleBrainzooming Brown Backs Brainstorming
Mike Brown’s Brainzooming post on May 27th was a brilliant defense of brainstorming. Brainstorming is a useful, powerful technique when used the way its inventor, Alex Osborn, intended it to be used....
View ArticleThe Leader’s Ultimate Time and Money Saver for Business Meetings
Studies indicate that business leaders spend at least 25% of their time in business meetings. Unfortunately, most of those meetings are as exciting as the one below – Twenty-five years ago I discovered...
View ArticleIdea Generation and Premature Judgment
Idea Generation takes time. Time to come up with ideas and time to shape them into something useful. Too often we fail to take the time. We forget that first ideas are raw ideas. Raw ideas seldom fit...
View ArticleIs brainstorming an ideas generator or a myth? – a New Yorker State of Mind
I’ve read about the brainstorm technique– work as a team and wildly ideate don’t criticize or ideas deflate. But I want to think alone, where not a white board you’ll find– I’m in a New Yorker State of...
View ArticleIs brainstorming an ideas generator or a myth?…part two
Is Jonah Lehrer’s argument against brainstorming all wet? In my previous post, I suggested that Jonah Lehrer’s New Yorker Magazine article where he argued brainstorming doesn’t work was flawed. One of...
View ArticleTaking the plunge with new ideas – 7 questions for idea assessment
Hand over the money, I’m armed! If you’ve ever attended a brainstorm session you have, like me, heard the phrase: “There are no bad ideas.” And like me, you probably said to yourself: “Oh yes there...
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