Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

When your team is tasked with generating ideas to solve a problem, suggesting a brainstorming session is a natural reaction. Although the term “brainstorming” is now used as a generic term for having groups develop ideas, it began as the name of a specific technique proposed by advertising executive Alex Osborn in the 1950s.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 1, 2019

Oxford University researchers Carl Benedikt Frey shot to public attention in 2013 when he and colleague Michael Osborne released research in which they predicted that 47% of jobs could be automated within the next decade or so. I was understandably curious therefore to see if Technology at Work 4.0 addressed this crucial area any better.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Even the most functional of teams will sometimes disagree or experience infighting, which can be difficult to manage. To learn more, feel free to email Eliza Osborn at eosborn@beautifulplanning.com or call +1 (877) 841-7244. Employee conflict is unavoidable in any office environment, this is a fact. Consider leaving a comment!

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Joseph Lalonde

APRIL 23, 2018

What was contained on the paper of the plane was part of The Old Man’s story about The Little Prince (Riley Osborne). By asking questions, you can get to know your team. The Old Man tossed a paper airplane into The Little Girl’s window. The Old Man told The Little Girl he thought she could use a friend.

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Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Sticky Teams by Larry Osborne – I had the opportunity to spend some time with this author this year and I can’t believe I had not been closely following his work previously. This book is full of nuggets of how to make teams work well.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

There are a lot of myths and misconceptions about where creativity comes from and how to nurture and grow it in a team. As a result, even well-meaning leaders can end up killing the creativity of a team when they need it most. You and Your Team. Leading Teams. Boost your group’s performance.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It was Alex Osborn, a 1960s advertising executive, who coined the term brainstorming. He passionately believed in the ability of teams to generate brilliant ideas, provided they follow four rules: members should share any idea that came to mind, build on the ideas of others, avoid criticism, and, most notably, strive for quantity not quality.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2012

In articles in both the New York Times and The New Yorker earlier this year, the concept of brainstorming as introduced in the 1940's by Alex Osborn has been attacked as ineffective and linked to the concept of " Groupthink.". Assemble a Diverse Team. Here's our advice: 1. Somebody has to own the effort. This is the client role.

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LDRLB

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

His name was Alex Osborn. Osborn wrote arguably the first book on creativity at work ever, Applied Imagination. Anybody can come up with a list, but it’s when you get together as a team that you have a collection of different past experiences that relates to the focus of the session. There was a creator of brainstorming.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Unfortunately, quite a bit of research demonstrates that the traditional brainstorming methods first described by Alex Osborn in the 1950’s fail. Innovative Teams (20-Minute Manager Series). The more people who can engage with that problem or goal, the more knowledge that is available to work on it. Further Reading. Add to Cart.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

So when you’re managing a team or working in a group, what can you do to help foster creative thinking? During the last half of the 20th century, companies that wanted to encourage creative thinking relied on brainstorming and team building as important tools in their toolkit.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Osborne from Oxford University calculated that about 47% of American jobs could disappear by 2020 due to digitization. It means changing, step by step, from a traditional functional, siloed organization into a modular one with a loose alliance of autonomous and multidisciplinary teams. In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

Osborne, researchers at the Oxford Martin School, published a paper estimating that 47% of all U.S. And something that’s become more important in the modern workplace is being able to play off a team member’s strengths and adapt to changing circumstances. those with high IQ are better able to collaborate on teams).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

The Mayor’s team in Boston that started-up the One Fund in the days after the Marathon bombings were public entrepreneurs. We built the organization from PayPal and a Post Office Box, and it went on to channel $61 million from donors to victims and survivors in just 75 days.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2015

At the team level, it results from the synergy between team members, which allows the group to produce something greater than the sum of its parts. The most widely used method to spark group creativity is brainstorming, a technique first introduced by Alex Osborn, a real life “Mad Man,” in the 1950s.

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