Linda Pickard

No Kidding Leadership – Linda’s Blog

• Tread carefully with conflict. Creativity might not be the beneficiary.
  We are being encouraged to welcome conflict in group and teamwork to improve creativity. So says Jonah Lehrer in his new book Imagine along with a number of critics of the traditional brainstorming method. The classical method recommends generating and building on ideas first before judging.  What the critics don’t tell us is how to debate or butt heads with […]
• Where brainstorming and introversion intersect
  In the movie Dead Poets’ Society the teacher, played by Robin Williams, captivates and inspires his students with his confidence in their potential to make a difference: You will learn to think for yourself…words and ideas can change the world. This resonates with the emerging consensus on the limitation of group brainstorming – the danger of groupthink. As […]