When they get stuck, you can tell them about the creative cliff illusion. Here’s something I wrote about the topic for Character Lab as a Tip of the Week: “I have no idea what to do with 1,000 tennis ...

The dynamic Bill Strickland had the participants jumping up and applauding Saturday after the heartwarming story of his founding the National Center for Arts & Technology in Pittsburgh. Strickland, ...

Focus on questions, not answers, for breakthrough insights. by Hal Gregersen About 20 years ago I was leading a brainstorming session in one of my MBA classes, and it was like wading through oatmeal.

Couched in the headline "Brainstorming doesn't work," The New Yorker explains that brainstorming where you just throw out ideas and see what sticks has no better track record than sitting down and ...

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I have written several times before about the perils of traditional brainstorming. Getting people together in a group to throw out ideas leads to what is called “productivity loss from brainstorming:” ...