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	<title>Brilliance Activator &#187; Brainstorming</title>
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		<title>Taking the plunge with new ideas – 7 questions for idea assessment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Dymer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hand over the money, I&#8217;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 are!” During a brainstorm, we shouldn’t judge ideas because judgment stifles idea generation. But once the idea generation phase [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is brainstorming an ideas generator or a myth?&#8230;part two</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Dymer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Jonah Lehrer&#8217;s argument against brainstorming all wet? In my previous post, I suggested that Jonah Lehrer&#8217;s New Yorker Magazine article where he argued brainstorming doesn&#8217;t work was flawed. One of the major supports for his argument, a test performed at Yale University in 1958, did not disprove the effectiveness of brainstorming. Accepting the Yale [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is brainstorming an ideas generator or a myth? – a New Yorker State of Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Dymer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;ll find– I’m in a New Yorker State of Mind. (with apologies to Billy Joel) In January of 2012, Jonah Lehrer wrote an article for The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Idea Generation and Premature Judgment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 07:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Dymer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 our parameters or appear as amazing breakthroughs, so we reject them. Imagine a man wants a garden [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Leader&#8217;s Ultimate Time and Money Saver for Business Meetings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 18:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Dymer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 a way out of the &#8220;meeting-mess.&#8221; I read Dr. Edward de Bono&#8217;s book Six Thinking Hats, applied his insights, and experienced improvements in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brainzooming Brown Backs Brainstorming</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Dymer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mike Brown&#8217;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. Brainstorming, as Mike Brown nicely put it, is a tool for divergent thinking: expanding the range of possibilities considered. If you&#8217;d like to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solo Brainstorming?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Dymer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting post appeared earlier this month on Harvard Business Review&#8217;s Blog Network. The title of the post, authored by Andrew O&#8217;Brien, was: &#8220;Sometimes, It&#8217;s Better to Brainstorm Alone.&#8221; If, by brainstorming, he was referring to the technique developed by Alex Osborn, solo brainstorming is a contradiction in terms. If he is using &#8220;brainstorming&#8221; to [...]]]></description>
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