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Brainstorming sessions can help you explore new ideas, discover solutions and reach your goals.

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This story appears in the June 2007 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »

I regularly attend sessions with a group of colleagues. Our purpose is to gather as many as possible. Everyone shares a variety of interesting insights, strategies and thoughts, and we each walk away with great new ways to improve our businesses.

Recently, the owner of a clothing store joined our group session. Instead of taking in the spirit of everyone's suggestions, he found fault with each . It was too expensive, would take too long to implement or was something he had already tried. It seemed as if he hadn't come to obtain new ideas--he'd come to debate any strategy presented to him. As a result, he left our session feeling frustrated.

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