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Many of the best ideas and solutions began as half-baked thoughts shared among bright individuals. We have a term for the process of bringing to fruition a half-baked idea: brainstorming. The key to effective brainstorming is leadership. If one cannot lead an audience to the point whereby they see one's ostensibly hairbrained proposal as something on which they can build, one's idea is dead in the water.
In the context of public policy discussion (not debate) that means one must present one's ideas in such such a way that audience members who understand the topic really well will consider it and in their minds think a variety of things including:
References:
In the context of public policy discussion (not debate) that means one must present one's ideas in such such a way that audience members who understand the topic really well will consider it and in their minds think a variety of things including:
- "Okay, this idea is incomplete, but the guy has given credence to the specifics of the aspects by which it is incomplete, so I can tell s/he knows what he's talking and can be a valuable partner if I were to contribute some ideas that, one way or another, advance building on his/her ideas." (Idea development is advanced either positively by expounding on existing ideas, adding new elements, or by a contributor culling tactical lines from the realm of possible ones initially broached for the purpose of either validating or invalidating them.)
- "This idea is one that can be addressed in isolation; thus it's worth discussing."
References:
- How to Write an Effective Discussion
- Sales Buy-In of Marketing Strategies: Exploration of Its Nuances, Antecedents, and Contextual Conditions
- Get the Boss to Buy In
- The Focused Leader
- Commonalities and differences between scholarly and technical collaboration
- Group discussion and the importance of a shared perspective