Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 13, 2023

One time we worked with a very literal-minded engineer who had a reputation as a caustic teammate. I was just brainstorming. Wow, that’s interesting. I hadn’t thought of it that way. I appreciate you thinking about how we can save money here. Sometimes they’ll leave and say, oh, it’s okay. It can wait.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 13, 2017

Here’s an example of a planner we built to help one of our engineering clients. Some of those informal, “just checking in” conversations turned into the most valuable brainstorming, #NoPressure. Then have them track each time they actually do the recognition. Winning Well Encouragement Planner.

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Mills Scofield

MAY 13, 2019

The class was called Iterative Design of Retail Value Propositions and Experiences - a blend of design and engineering. This was a rare moment in my educational experience where I relied on my intuition to brainstorm, create, and deliver the thousands of decisions that were made throughout the process. Kathy Spoehr, me, Yuna.

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Decker Communication

JANUARY 4, 2022

You must engineer it. Your audience is more likely to engage, ask questions, brainstorm—and they’ll be more invested in the outcome as a result. It’s happened to all of us. We’re so focused on the content we need to get across that we don’t think about the experience of our listeners. Engagement doesn’t just happen. Add a poll.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Jonah Lehrer's article, "GroupThink" in The New Yorker , January 30, 2012 states that brainstorming seems like an ideal technique, a feel-good way to boost productivity. But there is a problem with brainstorming. Now Boeing needs hundreds of engineers just to design and produce engines." It doesn't work.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 15, 2019

” The Seattle Times investigative report found, “a company that once encouraged its engineers to raise questions or concerns about programs and designs began to do the opposite.” ” An engineering leader said, “there was a theme of just follow the plan, and that was code for don’t bring me bad news.”

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Mills Scofield

MAY 13, 2019

The class was called Iterative Design of Retail Value Propositions and Experiences - a blend of design and engineering. This was a rare moment in my educational experience where I relied on my intuition to brainstorm, create, and deliver the thousands of decisions that were made throughout the process. Kathy Spoehr, me, Yuna.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Search Engine Optimization is a basic requirement for successful affiliate marketing. Research and brainstorm. In the modern digital environment, affiliate marketing is a very lucrative venture when done appropriately. It can generate good passive income and even turn to a full-time business. SEO steps to affiliate marketing.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 10, 2018

If you’ve ever been involved in an activity like writing, brainstorming, athletics or crunching numbers, and been overtaken by intense focus and euphoria, then that’s a clue to your passion. Recently, I was listening to a podcast which shared how Texas A&M University has created a pilot program, combining engineering and a medical degree.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 9, 2015

The website needs building, plug-ins added for shopping carts and email contact, search engine optimization (SEO) needs to be formulated, along with content marketing, and social media exposure, and all need updating on a regular basis. Arrange to have brainstorming sessions. Staff requirements in the early days, should be minimal.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

Brainstorming is the default way in which many teams and organizations come up with new ideas. Brainstorming is better suited to some personalities and cultures than others. As a result, many individuals in the global workplace dread brainstorming sessions and say very little. However, it doesn’t always work out this way.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 16, 2017

Another goes to court to petition for permission to take engineering courses at an all-white school. Through dialogue, you find out if and how you are divided from your fellow citizens and brainstorm ways to patch divisions. One of the gals runs a half mile in high heels to the closest “colored” bathroom. wanted to rectify.

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CO2

MARCH 8, 2011

KISS is a memorable acronym for “Keep It Simple, Stupid,” coined by Kelly Johnson , who worked as an engineer for Lockheed Skunkworks. KiSS with a lowercase “i” is a different acronym, but it’s simple and memorable, too. . 2) What should I stop doing? 3) What should I start doing? What’s your KiSS list for today?

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 20, 2015

Initiated at a brainstorming session with four of my colleagues, COI began implementing services in Miami-Dade County, Florida in 2007 with a collaborative team of eight community, faith, and professional organizations. They will develop engineering and math skills while learning a simple, clean energy technology to generate electricity.

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Talent Anarchy 1

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

In fact, I’d argue that most organizations have actually engineered their culture to be anti-weirdo. By assigning the responsibility in meetings or brainstorming sessions of devil’s advocate, you accomplish two things: First, you train people to think critically and to intentionally find the flip side of an argument.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Many individuals may brainstorm what they believe is a great business idea, but it is a mistake to avoid performing thorough market research before launching any type of business. Forbes suggests that your site should be mobile-optimized to rank higher in search engines and to cater to the growing mass of mobile users.

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LDRLB

MARCH 24, 2014

And why Facebook is building a college-like campus housing over 2800 software engineers in just one room. It turns the brainstorming ideal into a physical space. It’s why Apple’s new space-ship shaped headquarters to accommodate 8000 people in one place. Some tasks are inherently solitary. Others are intrinsically collaborative.

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 24, 2014

While he defined both the end goal and the timeframe for completion, he left these intentional spaces so that the various teams of scientists, engineers, and politicians involved in the endeavour could collaborate towards making his vision a reality.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Guy Harris presents Three Power Phrases to Disarm a Verbal Aggressor posted at Guy Harris: The Recovering Engineer , saying, “How do you respond to coworkers or colleagues when they are verbally aggressive? Shawn Cyne, Author of Brainsteering, tells us to forget the brainstorming. Here are three phrases that might help.”

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 6, 2013

The team then hosted a brainstorming event with the entire company on how to encourage innovation at Geneca. Additional support turning great ideas into actual products can play a big part in strengthening our innovation engine. We’d look to the incubator to further sponsor ideas originating from Genecians.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Guy Harris presents Three Power Phrases to Disarm a Verbal Aggressor posted at Guy Harris: The Recovering Engineer , saying, "How do you respond to coworkers or colleagues when they are verbally aggressive? Shawn Cyne, Author of Brainsteering, tells us to forget the brainstorming. Here are three phrases that might help.".

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

As a quality engineer, I am always looking for quality focused businesses. Brainstorming. She holds a Master in Business Administration and is also a Quality Engineer certified by the American Society of Quality (ASQ). After the two months, extra meetings to follow-up on the action plan are optional. Check sheet. Pareto Chart.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Brainstorming by ideaWallets – We all have issues with cognitive bias and our brains get very guarded and have a difficult time changing. By brainstorming you can effectively collect idea sets that may have escaped you without it. By brainstorming you can effectively collect idea sets that may have escaped you without it.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Brainstorming by ideaWallets – We all have issues with cognitive bias and our brains get very guarded and have a difficult time changing. By brainstorming you can effectively collect idea sets that may have escaped you without it. By brainstorming you can effectively collect idea sets that may have escaped you without it.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

It piled up on streets and in vacant lots, and in 1898 urban planners convened from around the world to brainstorm solutions to the impending crisis. Infomocracy , by governance researcher Malka Older, explores how software could change our public institutions through the social and technical engineering of elections.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

For example, Mauricio started as an engineer in his manufacturing firm, moved up the ranks, and 10 years later was promoted to president of European operations. When individuals join a senior leadership team, they are often exposed to topics they’re unfamiliar with.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Leading a Brainstorming Session with a Cross-Cultural Team. That is how Google’s “20% time” policy is able to act as a human-powered search engine for new ideas. Now Leonardo was clearly a genius of historical proportions, but think about how much more efficient he would have been with a decent search engine.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

For example, when a top architect at architectural/engineering firm HGA was assigned to help make a pitch for a synagogue project, she immediately started to study Jewish culture — although she was Catholic — starting with Judaism for Dummies and moving on to more intellectual books.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

To design and develop new products, it’s not uncommon today to get your research and engineering folks to collaborate with customers and other external stakeholders. They further narrowed the scope by explicitly ruling out development of a number of technologies including gas/fuel cell hybrid engines.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

When Dan Akerson became CEO in 2010, he brought a bit of daylight into the hallowed halls, breaking down siloes to urge collaboration between departments that had long stopped talking to each other — engineering and parts buyers, product development and purchasing, to name some especially critical relationships.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Each year, the CEO and his senior leadership team meet with the heads of each arm of the organization (from engineering to sales to corporate functions) to review their employees, discuss moving people up and across teams, and brainstorm methods of augmenting skills and building experiences.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

For instance, in 2014 only 10% of Yelp’s engineers were female. These goals include aiming for Yelp’s sales teams to match the composition of the diverse communities in which they operate, increasing its proportion of female engineers, and making its culture more inclusive. The numbers were grim.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Into the people camp also falls Michael Schrage, who in the same year wrote a particularly thoughtful account of IDEO, “Playing Around with Brainstorming,” one of the first of many articles on design thinking that have graced the pages of HBR, and still one of the shrewdest.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2018

Consider a 1985 study by Carnegie Mellon researcher Robert Kelley and Janet Caplan, who analyzed the characteristics of exceptional engineers at Bell Labs. When you seek out meetings, brainstorming sessions, or even email exchanges with people outside your traditional work circle, it can be very inspiring.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

An “innovation engine” is an organization’s capability to think and invest in long-term opportunities along with the competence to drive continuous innovations for top-line growth each year. Visual thinking is a combination of brainstorming, mind mapping, and design thinking. Pattern #4: Visual Thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

The VP of R&D had blundered in setting up the team to develop a radically new printer-scanner: He failed to define clear project goals, and he let two senior mechanical engineers each believe that they were going to lead the mechanical design of the product. From Day 1, the two tussled over their divergent visions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Most corporate buildings don't do a good job of supporting collaboration, brainstorming, and innovative work methods. Over the course of the past several months, I've noticed more and more non-design teams — such as human resources and engineering — using the space to brainstorm.

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