Why don’t we just brainstorm that? Brainstorming as a tool for ideation has a number of drawbacks, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be useful. Design leader and leadership coach Christopher McCann joins us to discuss how we improve our innovation processes, and hold better and more inclusive creative sessions.

We talk to Christopher McCann about where the concept of brainstorming came from, how to manage some of the drawbacks and social constructs, the importance and art of fascilitation, plus ways we could approaching “solving” things differently. 

(Listening time: 40 minutes, transcript)

• Full transcript for episode 285
  
• Christopher McCann
  
  • Website: https://www.letterpress.se/
    
  • Twitter https://twitter.com/letterpress
    
  • LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherdmccann/
    
  • Instagram https://www.instagram.com/letterpress.coaching/
    
  
  
• Brainstorming (Wikipedia)
  
• Alex Osborn (Wikipedia)
  
• Mad Men
  
• The 6 problems with brainstorming and how to overcome them 
  
• Psychological safety 
  
• 1-2-4-All 
  
• Forget Brainstorming. Try Questionstorming 
  
• Better Brainstorming 
  
• When Is the Right Time for Brainstorming in Strategic Planning?
  
• Building 20 (Wikipedia)
  
• Noam Chompsky (Wikipedia)
  
• Erik Spiekermann 
  
• Putting the face back into typeface (video)
  
• Related listening
  
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  • Episode 119: Articulating design decisions with Tom Greever
    
  • Episode 252: Toxic dogmatism
    
  • Episode 183: Meeting design with Kevin Hoffman
    
  
  
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