'Brainstorming', the buzzword used by executives to generate ideas among their staff, has been deemed politically incorrect by civil servants because it is thought to be offensive to people with brain disorders.

What is the politically correct term for brainstorm?

So now the expression brainstorming has been banned. And in future, meetings to generate new ideas will be referred to as 'thought showers'. Brainstorming, first coined in the 1890s, was used by psychiatrists to refer to severe nervous attacks.

What's wrong with brainstorming?

Brainstorming is particularly likely to harm productivity in large teams, when teams are closely supervised, and when performance is oral rather than written. Another problem is that teams tend to give up when they notice that their efforts aren't producing very much.