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1. Don’t judge or criticize ideas.
2. Be freewheeling. The wilder the
idea, the better.
3. Go for quantity. The more ideas
you have, the better.
4. Build on the ideas of fellow group
members.
Osborn believed passionately that
groups—once freed from the shackles
of social judgment—produced more
and better ideas than did individuals
working in solitude, and he made grand
claims for his favored method. “The
quantitative results of group brainstorming
are beyond question,” he
wrote. “One group produced 45 suggestions
for a home-appliance promotion,
56 ideas for a money-raising campaign,
124 ideas on how to sell more blankets.
In another case, 15 groups