Picking up from Pt1, here are some additional concrete ways to improve how we work together. Show Notes:* Two Ways to Improve to Improve Your Brainstorms* Roundtable* Back-and-Forth* Clients as Collaborators* Creative Tension: In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance.  In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.          – Orson Welles as Harry Lime, The Third Man * Great creative often takes some friction* Great teams respect one another enough to accept this, so they get too sensitive* Don’t Spare Your Darlings* First ideas are rarely your best ideas, let them go* Don’t just put lipstick on a pig, sample what you like about that idea and create something new.* Seek Criticism. Not Praise. – Paul Arden* Overcome your insecurities* You won’t get better if all you seek is temporary validation* Honest Criticism is Hard to Take, Particularly from a Relative, a Friend, an Acquaintance, or a Stranger. — Franklin P. Jones* Criticism vs. Feedback* One comes from a negative place, the other is genuinely aiming to help* Don’t be overly sensitive, don’t be a jerk* Just Because Someone ‘Says What’s On His Mind’, Doesn’t Make it a Good Thing. Drunks Say What’s On Their Mind, Too.* Be honest, but don’t be an ass* Being rude and crude makes it harder to take you seriously* Teddy Roosevelt on the Critic Transcripts: Welcome to Episode 9 of Navigating the Fustercluck—a podcast full of snackable insights to help you navigate the topsy/turvy world of creativity. My name is Wegs, like eggs with a W, joining you from Deaf Mule Studios in Dallas, and whether you work in advertising, design, gaming, fine art, commercial art, content creation, whatever it may be, we’re back to talk about how to better work together. How to collaborate. On this episode we’ll pick up where we left off last time, taking on some of the issues of collaboration, or the lack of it. And as we promised, we’ll be leading off  with two fresh spins on traditional brainstorming that will take you well beyond wasting those giant Post-its everyone uses these days.RoundtableMore engaging, and with fewer distractions, this modified brainstorm brings out more ideas. And more importantly, leads to better ones.* Combine just enough tables to keep your group shoulder-to-shoulder* Unfurl a roll of butcher block paper* Give everyone something colorful to write & draw with                                    * Big and bold, in the center of the scroll, write out the question to be solved* Start playing music* Each person starts writing down as many ideas as possible* After 5 minutes, stop the music and have everyone take a step to their leftNow things start to really happen…* Start the music again, and now give everyone 2 minutes to build off of their neighbor’s ideas* Repeat these steps until the whole roll of paper is covered in ideas* Use stickers and have everyone dot their 3 favorites* Record the most popular on a wall and discuss* Find potential territories and list related tactics beneath them* Record and distributeAdd your own touches Roundtable. Do what works for you.Back-and-ForthThis method is best used by 2-7 people who should be presented the question at hand 1-2 days before the session.* 5 min: generate ideas individually* 20 min: Get together in the group to share your ideas with each other* 20 min: The best ideas are then developed together by the group through regularbrainstorming* 5 min: After the sharing and development of the best ideas is completed the group separates to further ideate individually for 5 minutes more* During this time, you can either focus on coming up with new ideas or build ...