A brainstorming meeting is not a place to offer harsh critique. I think it's okay to offer variations of an idea during a brainstorm, but not outright critique

A brainstorming meeting is not a place to offer harsh critique. I think it's okay to offer variations of an idea during a brainstorm, but not outright critique. This is a situation where you want creativity to flow. After the brainstorming, everyone needs to think critically about the ideas and have a time for debate when deciding what to execute. So to answer your question, it depends what mode you are in. Are you still in the idea gathering phase? Then let bad ideas in. If not, then it's time for critique. (I base these off of a talk I heard by Craig McNair Wilson, a Disney Imagineer. Here are some notes someone else took on the same topic.) http://www.theparagon.org/archives/2006/02/03/brainstorming_by_craig_mcnair_wilson/ http://www.theparagon.org/archives/2006/02/03/brainstorming_...