Before heading into a group brainstorming session...
... organizations should insist that staffers first try to come up with their own solutions.
One problem with group brainstorming is that when we hear someone else’s solution to a problem, we tend to see it as what an “anchor - we get stuck on that objective and potential solution to the exclusion of other goals.
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