I promised in last week's post on "How to Kill Good Ideas" to follow up with some ways that more constructively help create new ideas. The first of these is taken from an idea by Mats Kindahl's post of two other ways to kill ideas. Without further delay, here they are...
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Make it safe to contribute ideas
The best way to do this is encourage risk taking and acknowledge that some ideas will fail and that's acceptable. The people I know who are the most creative are also the most prolific when it comes to idea generation. And some of those ideas are, objectively speaking, total crap. But there are so many good ideas generated in the process, it really doesn't matter. - …