Coaching practices for Osborn Wild Ideas Rule
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- Everything I let myself put down is safe and sensible
- An idea barely forms in my head before I’ve already torn it apart
- Our brainstorms always get hijacked by the same two loud, senior voices while the quieter people
- I come up with three or four decent ideas and then just stop, satisfied, like that’s the whole pool
- I treat every idea on my list as its own separate thing, judging each one solo, and it never occurs to me to mash two of them together
Practices that may help
- Osborn’s Brainstorming Rules, Made Practical
Alex Osborn’s 1953 rules — defer judgment, go for quantity, combine ideas, and welcome wild ideas — were designed to suppress the social inhibition that kills idea-generation in groups. The rules themselves target a real problem, but controlled research consistently finds that nominal groups (people brainstorming alone then pooling) outperform interacting groups; the rules work best when combined with individual idea generation first. - Welcome wild and outrageous ideas
Explicitly invite the absurd — it’s easier to tame a wild idea than to enliven a dull one.
Osborn’s Brainstorming Rules, Made Practical - Defer judgment during ideation
Separate generating ideas from evaluating them — criticism comes later, never during.
Osborn’s Brainstorming Rules, Made Practical - Use round-robin turns to equalize contribution
Give everyone a timed, equal turn — it prevents a few voices from dominating and pulls quieter members into the space.
Osborn’s Brainstorming Rules, Made Practical - Go for quantity over quality
Set a raw count target — the goal is many ideas, not good ones.
Osborn’s Brainstorming Rules, Made Practical - Combine and build on others’ ideas
Treat every idea as a building block — the best ideas in a session are usually hybrids.
Osborn’s Brainstorming Rules, Made Practical - Run low-cost experiments on intersectional ideas
Test cross-domain ideas quickly and cheaply before investing in them fully.
The Medici Effect: Innovation at the Intersection - Provocation (PO): make a deliberately absurd statement to escape the pattern
Prefix an impossible or absurd idea with "PO" to signal it is a provocation, not a proposal — then follow it to see what it unlocks.
Lateral Thinking, Made Practical - Harvest and cluster ideas after the session
The generation phase is worthless without a systematic harvest: sort, name, and prioritize the output.
Osborn’s Brainstorming Rules, Made Practical - Green hat: generate new ideas and creative possibilities
The green hat is for generating alternatives and possibilities without evaluation — quantity and novelty over quality and correctness.
Six Thinking Hats, Made Practical
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- Osborn S Brainstorming Rules After A Loss
Alex Osborn’s 1953 rules — defer judgment, go for quantity, combine ideas, and welcome wild ideas — were designed to suppress the social inhibition that kills idea-generation in groups. The rules themselves target a real problem, but controlled research consistently finds that nominal groups (people brainstorming alone then pooling) outperform interacting groups; the rules work best when combined with individual idea generation first.
- Osborn S Brainstorming Rules After A Setback
Alex Osborn’s 1953 rules — defer judgment, go for quantity, combine ideas, and welcome wild ideas — were designed to suppress the social inhibition that kills idea-generation in groups. The rules themselves target a real problem, but controlled research consistently finds that nominal groups (people brainstorming alone then pooling) outperform interacting groups; the rules work best when combined with individual idea generation first.
- Osborn S Brainstorming Rules At Work
Alex Osborn’s 1953 rules — defer judgment, go for quantity, combine ideas, and welcome wild ideas — were designed to suppress the social inhibition that kills idea-generation in groups. The rules themselves target a real problem, but controlled research consistently finds that nominal groups (people brainstorming alone then pooling) outperform interacting groups; the rules work best when combined with individual idea generation first.
- Osborn S Brainstorming Rules Before Bed
Alex Osborn’s 1953 rules — defer judgment, go for quantity, combine ideas, and welcome wild ideas — were designed to suppress the social inhibition that kills idea-generation in groups. The rules themselves target a real problem, but controlled research consistently finds that nominal groups (people brainstorming alone then pooling) outperform interacting groups; the rules work best when combined with individual idea generation first.
- Osborn S Brainstorming Rules When Starting Out
Alex Osborn’s 1953 rules — defer judgment, go for quantity, combine ideas, and welcome wild ideas — were designed to suppress the social inhibition that kills idea-generation in groups. The rules themselves target a real problem, but controlled research consistently finds that nominal groups (people brainstorming alone then pooling) outperform interacting groups; the rules work best when combined with individual idea generation first.
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