Learn to conduct brainstorming sessions at your company. This leadership skill can help you learn how to increase employee satisfaction, thereby increasing productivity. You will also find your work ...

Sometimes meetings are held in order to pool knowledge and ensure that everyone is on the same page; but at other times meetings call for more creative input. Such meetings may be held to come up with ...

In his 1942 book How To Think Up, advertising executive Alex Osborn presented his idea for a technique he called “brainstorming,” a process in which participants share ideas free of criticism and have ...

Merriam-Webster defines brainstorming as: a group problem-solving technique that involves the spontaneous contribution of ideas from all members of the group; ALSO : the mulling over of ideas by one ...

Brainstorming isn't about sitting around chewing the end off a pencil trying to think of ideas. It's a structured way of coming up with loads of ideas in a short amount of time. It can be done alone ...

Avoid the internet, a new study says. Googling for new ideas can inhibit a group’s creativity during brainstorming sessions, researchers reported June 30 in the journal Memory & Cognition. Internet ...

Kauffman Foundation scholar Sam Arbesman made media waves recently with his book The Half-Life of Facts, which reminds the general reader of an obvious but often overlooked fact of scientific progress ...

An important issue confronts your team, and you are its leader. You structure an open discussion or brainstorm. The problem is, such forums create illusions of consensus. There's an alternative way to ...