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"blue sky” meetings

English translation: brainstorming

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English term or phrase:	"blue sky” meetings
English translation:	brainstorming
Entered by:	Nasima Sarwar

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13:42 Jun 3, 2004

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English term or phrase: "blue sky” meetings

She holds “blue sky” meetings before any big project to help us step outside our comfort zone

What do they mean by "blue sky" meetings?

Nasima Sarwar KudoZ activity Questions: 246 (7 open) (4 without valid answers) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 454
Local time: 08:39

brainstorming

Explanation:
Or maybe you have taken part in a blue sky meeting - a form of brainstorming during which participants are encouraged to let their imagination run free, with no barriers (cost, time, etc) to the ideas that can be put forward. A similar idea is thinking outside the box, which means to look at a problem in an unusual or original way.

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Note added at 11 mins (2004-06-03 13:54:10 GMT)
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Held under the blue sky - or at least in a place that is very different from the usual venue for meetings.

Next, it is time for a “Blue Sky” meeting. These are great fun. Pull the team together and have an off site meeting where you can dream about the future. For once in your life, leave behind the real world concerns of cost, time, technology and personnel. Do not let anything stop the creative juices.

http://www.bswllc.com/pdf/WEB T What\'s%20What%20When%20Evaluating%20Software.pdf

Selected response from:

Attila Piróth
Local time: 01:39

Grading comment

Thanks.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +13

brainstorming

Attila Piróth

4 +8

meetings where people are encouraged too think creatively/innovatively

Armorel Young

precautionary/anticipatory meetings

Clauwolf

4 -1

Unrealistic and impractical/ theoretical

Ray Luo

Answers

5 mins confidence:

precautionary/anticipatory meetings

Explanation:
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Clauwolf
Local time: 21:39
Native speaker of:

Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 4

5 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +13

brainstorming

Attila Piróth
Local time: 01:39
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Hungarian
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

Thanks.

11 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +8

meetings where people are encouraged too think creatively/innovatively

Explanation:
Belue sky thinking is considering all sorts of ideas, however far-fetched they may seem. A blue-sky meeting is simply a meeting at which blue-sky thinking takes place. Here are a couple of refs:-

Imagine yourself in six months time: what would a perfect week look like if absolutely anything were possible? Blue sky thinking is my name for this creative type of thinking where we allow ourselves to contemplate every possibillity without censoring ourselves. And blue sky thinking is what we need here. What would Monday morning look like, or Friday afternoon?
http://www.familiesonline.co.uk/article/view/274/1/35

"Blue sky" thinking is phrase popular in management
to describe innovative thinking which sparks ideas.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1402492.stm

Armorel Young
Local time: 00:39
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

23 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): -1

Unrealistic and impractical/ theoretical

Explanation:
“[The author]shows what is testable physics, what is philosphy's domain, and what is blue-sky nonsense” (Ann Finkbeiner, quoted in New York Times Book Review by Laurel Graeber October 13, 1996)

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Note added at 2004-06-03 14:07:52 (GMT)
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blue-sky as one word could be found in many dictionaries.

Ray Luo
Local time: 00:39
Native speaker of:

Chinese