1.2 Creative thinking – barriers transcript

Barriers to creative thinking

• Not having enough time
• Not getting enough quality sleep
• Feeling stressed
• Lacking motivation
• Receiving criticism from others
• Censoring your own ideas before they have a chance to grow
• Fearing rejection and what other people might think of your ideas
• Working for an organisation with lots of rules and bureaucracy
• Being micro-managed or given too much detail on how a problem or task should be tackled
• Not having access to sufficient resources or organisational and managerial support.

Attribution:

Content adapted from Leading Innovation, 1st Edition by Kerri Shields is licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA, except where otherwise noted.

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