Innovative ideas are a bi-product of thinking outside the box. Brainstorming is an essential method for creating new ideas and thinking in a different way, but it’s not always easy to get into the ...

There’s nothing wrong with scrawling down thoughts using pen and paper, but that task gets complicated when you need to take into account the thoughts of colleagues who may be one desk over or ...

One thing you always hear about remote teams is how hard it is to generate good ideas and brainstorm when you work remotely. I disagree. It's pretty easy to brainstorm remotely. What's really tough is ...

Gathering your team in a soulless conference room staring at a white board is not where colorful ideas come from. Getting together with friends over a bottle of wine (or two) is equally inefficient.

This week’s column is the latest on root cause analysis tools for managers. The topic we'll be discussing is brainstorming. I would like to begin by saying that brainstorming is not only a great ...

Bill Gates mind-maps. So do Jack Canfield, Deepak Chopra, and Al Gore. Leonardo da Vinci was the most famous mind-mapper of all, his visual style of note taking immortalized in his notebooks. Mind ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Gathering your team in a soulless conference room staring at a white board is not where colorful ideas come from. Getting together with ...