Brainstorming Gifts

Think Tank

'Quick, Ted, get that one down on paper before you forget it.'

'I have an idea...let's start thinking outside the box.'

Unfortunately, napkins hadn't been invented yet, so good ideas were quickly forgotten.

'Smith, we need more creativity. You have to learn to think outside the box.'

'...and, if your idea is so imaginative, innovative and original, why aren't our competitors doing it?'

"OK, let's hear it. But I'm warning you, it better not be another one of your half-baked ideas."

'What if this time, more heads has made us more stupid?'

'Sometimes it's good to get a different perspective.'

'I'm going to free associate for an hour, and I want you to turn it into a coherent strategy.'

'we need to do some out of the box thinking.'

'Step in here, Henderson - we want to pick your brain.'

Team

Animal office workers at a meeting. Lion says to giraffe: 'Gerry, I think you're best placed to do a spot of blue-sky thinking on this.'

"How about you just shout out ideas and I'll keep writing them down until this Post-it is all filled up."

The Department of Really Stupid Ideas: 'Most people think they just appear out of thin air! But the truth is, there's a great deal of very hard work involved!'

'Think tank' and 'Rethink tank'.

Project Managers in Hell

'It's weird, I know, but he does come up with some of our best ideas that way.'

"People were steal his ideas"

Creative department

At the advertising copy department.

Worry tank

Genius

Hot air ballon, but with the ballon replaced by a thought bubble.

Work colleague says 'This is great, where do you get your ideas from?' as man gets them from small elves living in the wall

A man having a light bulb screwed into his head.

"Okay! That's enough thinking outside the box."

'They are not drinking. They are 'hungover' from the brainstorming session.'

'Frank, we need you to come up with an idea who's time has come.'

Life begins at conceptualization!

'We tried a mind mapping excercise and found his in a skip next to the A564 in slough.'

Think Tank.

'I encourage diversity of opinion but not in this office.'

The first focus group discovered they could generate more ideas if meetings were held indoors. 'I hope you captured that last build.'