Showstopping Ways to Kill Brainstorming Sessions
Brainstorming sessions are intended to encourage ideas, the wilder the
better (if a sensible-seeming idea had worked, you wouldn't be "stuck" and
having a brainstorming session, right?).
The best creative teams always make it a rule that, during a brainstorming
session, no qualifiers or negatives - or even sensible comments - are allowed.
to take full responsibility for your career decisions. The resulting ideas are
examined more carefully only after the session is over. We'd like to encourage
you to do the same with the exercises and daydreaming you may choose to do
whilst looking at the suggestions on this section of our website.
Here are eight of our favorite ways that people routinely use to inhibit
the full expression of an idea:
