📚 Brainstorming

Osborn’s method for group ideas, the variations on it, and the research on when it actually helps.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject brainstorming in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Applied Imagination	Alex Faickney Osborn	1953	22
	Brainstorming	Charles Hutchison Clark	1958	4
	Creative thinking and brainstorming	J. Geoffrey Rawlinson	1971	4
	The do-it-yourself lobotomy	Tom Monahan	2002	4
	Creative thinking and brainstorming	J. G. Rawlinson	1970	3
	30 minutes ... to brainstorm great ideas	Alan Barker	1997	3
	Creativity now!	Jurgen Wolff	2009	3
	Gamestorming	Dave Gray	2010	3
	Me, Myself & Ideas	Carrie Anton	2019	3
	Five star mind	Tom Wujec	1995	2
	IQ puzzles	David J. Bodycombe	1999	2
	Instant Creativity	Brian Clegg	1999	2
	MindManager for dummies	Hugh Cameron	2004	2
	Lightning in a bottle	David D. Minter	2006	2
	Comment être créatif dans le travail	Charles Hutchinson Clark	1986	1
	Employee Involvement Team	Donald Dewar	1991	1
	Search widely, choose wisely	Tudor Rickards	1992	1
	Info-line	Rona J. Vrooman	1994	1
	The essence of management creativity	Tony Proctor	1995	1
	Make your meetings count!	Durward Humes	1995	1
	Mass interviewing and the marshalling of ideas to improve performance	Gilbert B. Siegel	1996	1
	Why didn't I think of that?	Lee Towe	1996	1
	El torbellino de ideas	David de Prado Díez	1997	1
	A review of brainstorming research	Scott G. Isaksen	1998	1
	Performance improvement methods	HARRINGTON	1999	1
	La créativité à l'ordre du jour	Paul Cusson	1999	1
	Performance Improvement Methods	HARRINGTON	1999	1
	Idea revolution : guidelines and prompts for brainstorming alone, in groups or with clients	Clare Warmke	2003	1
	Vereinfachte Wertanalyse mit Formularen und CD-ROM (VDI-Buch)	Albert Bronner	2003	1
	Brain Storm	Jason Rich	2003	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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