When brainstorming, the quantity of ideas is better than the quality of ideas.
- Cy Charney
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I like bringing together groups of 10 or 12 people. It gives you a diversity of viewpoints while remaining intimate enough for everyone to feel relaxed and have enough time to speak.
- Lee Cockerell
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Good ideas can be springboards for great ideas.
- John Maxwell
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Don’t let tradition paralyze your mind. Be receptive to new ideas. Be experimental. Try new approaches. Be progressive in everything you do.
- David J. Schwartz
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A truly intelligent person welcomes new ideas, for new ideas can add to the synergy of other accumulated ideas.
- Robert T Kiyosaki
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Ideas need noodling, tinkering, and fiddling to become workable.
- Jeffrey Fox
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Challenge people to come up with new ideas daily.
- Cy Charney
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Every time you think “wouldn’t it be great if" or “if only they offered", write that thought down!
- Lee Cockerell
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Always be on the lookout for ideas. Be completely indiscriminate as to the source. Get ideas from customers, children, competitors, other industries, or cab drivers. It doesn’t matter who thought of an idea. Many managers do not understand this.
- Jeffrey Fox
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Encourage foolish or impractical ideas. These can often be built on and can lead to new innovations.
- Cy Charney
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You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your brains won’t get you anywhere.
- Lee Iacocca
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If you can’t put your great idea on paper then you really haven’t thought it out.
- Lee Iacocca
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The day before something becomes a breakthrough, it is a crazy idea.
- Timothy Ferriss
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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
- Lee Iacocca
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There are so many “intelligent" people who argue or defend when a new idea clashes with the way they think. In this case, their so-called intelligence combined with arrogance equals ignorance.
- Robert T Kiyosaki
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Don’t let ideas escape. Write them down. Nail them to paper.
- David J. Schwartz
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When pitching an idea to a group, sense who is hesitant to the change and meet individually with them again.
- John Maxwell
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Bring all the bees together from time-to-time to reload their imaginations. Schedule regular idea-sharing sessions, perhaps weekly or monthly.
- Lee Cockerell
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Soak up all the good ideas you can.
- David J. Schwartz
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The best managers are not only open-minded, but they are gluttons for new ideas. They are not only adaptable, they are actually eager to approve the way things are done-quickly, if not immediately.
- Lee Cockerell
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Few organizations ever get going on the good ideas. Everybody is much too busy on the tasks of yesterday.
- Peter Drucker
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Offsite meetings to brainstorm ideas for improving existing processes can be heavily beneficial.
- Michael Watkins
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If you don’t have conflict, it means that people are likely “yessing" you to death and/or keeping their ideas to themselves.
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Piggyback ideas. This involves revisiting brainstormed ideas and using them as inspiration for new ones, or variations on a theme.
- Cy Charney
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Look at things not as they are, but as they can be. See what could be, not just what currently is.
- David J. Schwartz
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What I discovered, which is what many writers discover, is that I write in order to think.
- Timothy Ferriss
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If you are unsure about how much you like an idea, write it down and revisit it in two weeks. That length of time should automatically assist in the idea vetting process.
- unknown
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Most people have 2-3 great ideas per year that they don't act upon.
- unknown
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