Truth 27There's a Right Time and Place for Brainstorming
During one of my managerial assignments, I embarked on doing some planning for the next fiscal year. I scheduled a brainstorming session with the entire organization to flesh out ideas on who we were, what objectives we wanted to establish for the next year, and what we would do to meet our objectives. I sent out a meeting notice announcing the brainstorming session, got a nice big room with plenty of whiteboards, and enlisted a facilitator to help us with the brainstorming. One fact I failed to consider was that the session was scheduled during a time that one of my teams was burning the midnight oil on a project. Some of them asked to be excused from the brainstorming session because ...
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