Brainstorming Doesn't Work -- Here's What Does

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  joyceturk.artist@...12/05/07 Report as spam
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  thinking creatively

  How does a right-brained creative employee who thinks out of the box manage an extremely left-brained narrowly focused office director?

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  fhkchen03/24/08 Report as spam
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  left-brain vs. right-brain

  One possible approach will be to use a rational analogy to convince the left-brained director. This approach is effective since a left-brained creative person often have no problem coming up with an appropriate analogy. Yet, the very left-brained types can appreciate the logic of the argument because an analogy recalls for him/her knowledge that he already understands.
  
  Frank

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  gerwitz03/28/08 Report as spam
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  crucial conversations

  google "crucial conversations."
  
  I suspect you may have your own issues. Does this left brain really bring
  balance?
  
  Kurt.Gerwitz.Com

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  dolores.rodgers@...12/18/07 Report as spam
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  RE: Brainstorming Doesn't Work -- Here's What Does

  If you could add a new feature to our current service/product, what would it be?

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  AgCreativity03/25/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Brainstorming Doesn't Work -- Here's What Does

  Left-brain/right brain=obsolete thinking.
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  And here's a comment about Brainstorming from the person immersed in this stuff. Too many people misunderstand Brainstorming and have no clue how to make it valuable. It is best as a team building and concensus tool when you have a variety of personality types. And it is also a part of proven applied process. However, the money happens when you have the right faclitator leading the session and knows how to design it.
  
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  Talk to me if you want the research citations.
  
  AgCreativity

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  mdshaver05/09/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Brainstorming Doesn't Work -- Here's What Does

  Most people have become so used to thinking "outside the box" on command that "thinking outside the box" has just become another box. I see a lot of these attitudes:
  (1) I don't get paid to come up with new product ideas, but someone does-let them earn their money.
  (2) I do "lose points" when I sit in a "brainstorming" session and don't have new and wonderful ideas,or,worse, have an idea that gets judged as "inside the box" thinking.
  (3) Good ideas more often occur at random or in some setting that isn't a brainstorming session. If the suggestion box wasn't a joke I would submit ideas-we need a better system to take advantage of random ideas that may be productive.

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  edsley05/14/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Brainstorming Doesn't Work -- Here's What Does

  Thats right... i guess sometimes we do get into brainstorming sessions with an agenda
  http://danielsrepublic.com/country/?p=137

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  Stephen629405/21/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Brainstorming Doesn't Work -- Here's What Does

  Brainstorming does work, you just can't go into it cold. It is important to give the participants an agenda or some advance time to consider the issue to be tackled.
  
  I wrote about this topic here ( http://tinyurl.com/64fhc2 ), it is important to remember that brainstorming isn't something that you just jump into. You also need additional tools:
  
  "Whether you???re brainstorming ideas, trying to solve a problem or analyzing a situation, ... you can end up spending a huge amount of time trying to assimilate all the little bits and pieces. Rather than letting the disjointed information get the better of you, you can use an affinity diagram to help you organize it.
  
  An affinity diagram helps to synthesize large amounts of data by finding relationships between ideas. The information is then gradually structured from the bottom up into meaningful groups. From there you can clearly ???see??? what you have, and then begin your analysis or come to a decision."