Throwing your employees in a conference room and announcing "Let's brainstorm!" is a good way to encourage collaboration and innovation. But, in order to manage an effective brainstorming session, you ...

Brainstorming is a collaborative, creative process that embodies a fundamental contradiction. On one hand, productive brainstorming involves randomly tossing out ideas without restraint or editing. On ...

One of the downsides of traditional brainstorming sessions is that they favor extroverts. To participate, you need to interject ideas with lots of energy and enthusiasm. Nothing quashes introverts’ ...

The word “brainstorming” conjures up a vision of hell. It is someone saying, “Fire up the brainwaves barbecue.” It is trying desperately to work out where everyone else’s cursors have gone on a ...