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How to Run Your First Team Brainstorm as a New Manager
New manager and feeling pressure to generate brilliant ideas in your first team brainstorm? In this episode, Lucas and Luna break down a specific case: a new engineering manager at a mid-size SaaS company who inherited a team of senior ICs skeptical of her process. They walk through the before-and-after of a failed brainstorm that turned into a productive one — using a technique called the 'brainwriting pre-write' to avoid groupthink and status dynamics. Lucas shares the exact structure: five minutes of silent idea generation, anonymous voting, then structured discussion. Luna…
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