Quick Win: The creative secret behind Exploding Kittens’ thousand-idea design retreats
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What happens when a team generates a thousand ideas - and kills most of them within minutes?
In this Quick Win, I speak with Exploding Kittens co-creator Elan Lee about how he and his team turn chaos into creativity during their quarterly design retreats. Over three intense days, they generate, test, and ruthlessly discard ideas - all without bruising egos.
Elan shares how he’s built a culture of trust where killing ideas isn’t failure, it’s focus - and why showing your team it’s safe to let go might be the most powerful leadership move you can make.
Elan and I discuss:
- Inside Exploding Kittens’ quarterly design retreats
- Why Elan ditched the “yes, and…” rule for “no, kill it”
- How to create psychological safety in creative chaos
- The leadership habit that helps teams detach from their ideas
- Why rejecting ideas fast can unlock better ones
KEY QUOTE
“All the best ideas start out as terrible ideas - they just need room to evolve.”
Explore Elan’s games at explodingkittens.com and connect with him on Instagram, X (Twitter), and LinkedIn.
Listen to my full conversation with Elan here.
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