Nature Quote by Susan Cain

“At IDEO we have dedicated rooms for our brainstorming sessions, and the rules are literally written on the walls: Defer judgment. Encourage wild ideas.…

— Tim Brown

...remember the dangers of the New Groupthink. If it's creativity you're after, ask your employees to solve problems alone before sharing their ideas. If…

— Susan Cain

“They overlook the possibility that brainstorming can be a skill, an art, more like playing the piano than tying your shoes.”

— Thomas Kelley

“Brainstorming might be useful in situations where creativity is required. However, solving hard problems is not one of these.”

— Nat Greene

So when a good idea comes, you know, part of my job is to move it around, just see what different people think, get…

— Steve Jobs

“Research tells us that brainstorming becomes more productive when it’s focused. As jazz great Charles Mingus famously said, “You can’t improvise on nothing, man;…

— Chip Heath

“You have to free your brain to roam to places that are a little impractical, and innovation consultants have come up with some great…

— Amanda Lang

“In a famous 1987 study, researchers Michael Diehl and Wolfgang Stroebe from Tubingen University in Germany concluded that brainstorming groups have never outperformed virtual…

— Frans Johansson

“The best way to get a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.”

— Linus Pauling

Groupthink can become a serious issue - old ideas stay around after they're useful, and new ideas too often don't get a fair hearing.

— Elizabeth Warren

“Be creative while inventing ideas, but be disciplined while implementing them.”

— Amit Kalantri

Psychologists usually offer three explanations for the failure of group brainstorming. The first is social loafing: in a group, some individuals tend to sit…

— Susan Cain