[HN Gopher] Tips for Individual and Group Brainstorming
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       Tips for Individual and Group Brainstorming
        
       Author : itssho
       Score  : 44 points
       Date   : 2021-03-29 17:47 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | gregdetre wrote:
       | The evidence suggests that brainstorming doesn't work so well -
       | the loudest and earliest views tend to dominate.
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       | Instead, the recommendation seems to be to allow people to
       | generate ideas in silence first. This is my approach, which has
       | worked very effectively in groups of up to a dozen remotely for a
       | variety of questions:
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       | https://www.makingdatamistakes.com/how-to-run-an-idea-stampe...
        
       | tyingq wrote:
       | Certainly hits all the management-speak bingo squares. Ideation,
       | synergy, truth seeking, circling back, curating, mon-vision, idea
       | pool, word storming, etc.
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       | They do briefly mention anonymity. I wish they would have spent
       | more time there, as well as how to collect ideas not just
       | verbally. The quiet thinkers are often left out in these sorts of
       | exercises.
        
       | valbaca wrote:
       | Instead, just don't brainstorm.
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       | There's never been a study showing brainstorming is effective.
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       | If innovative, useful ideas could be spontaneously plucked from
       | thin air, then they would've already been thought of.
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       | Brainstorming is exactly how extroverted mgmt thinks big ideas
       | are made and it's the complete opposite.
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       | Thinking takes time. Read, good, deep thinking takes much more
       | time and research.
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       | Give people their time back and stop wasting it with these
       | childish, wasteful activities. Thought and work take time.
        
       | k__ wrote:
       | I once read, there is no such thing as group brainstorming.
       | Social pressure will always negate any potential benefits.
        
         | LeonB wrote:
         | (Good) comedy writing teams _can_ do "spit-balling"
         | successfully. I think it's possible. I don't think "brain-
         | storming" is the right angle to come at the problem.
        
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