If you spend a lot of time in brainstorming sessions, you will at some point have heard (and, hopefully, rolled your eyes at) some of the tiresome clichés that go along with them. “Let’s break out of our silos,” or the dreaded “think outside the box," for example. And then there’s the worst of them all: “There are no bad ideas.”
Oh, but there are. So, so very many, often advanced in the belief that they are silo-breaking, outside-the-box thinking good ideas. I could list any number of bad ideas that are prevalent in this, the Age of Idiocracy (AKA the dumbest of times), but there are plenty enough examples in the world of boxing alone.
Being a successful boxing promoter is hard, but the fundamental concept is simple: put evenly matched fighters with styles that mesh in a ring and see what happens. That just isn’t enough for some folks, though, so periodically up pops an idea that really should never have made it out of the brainstorm session. I’m not even talking George Foreman facing five guys in one day, or a 58-year-old with recent health scares shuffling sadly around the ring. I mean, really bad ideas.
