Creativity and innovation are key elements of what it means to create value and be in business.
So of course, in an ideal world, both hemispheres of our brains would leap at the opportunity to dive into this honey pot.
Alas, this rarely happens, for a number of reasons. Here are 12 ways to crush any hopes of innovation:
- Live within a social media bubble
- Lock yourself in a state of fight or flight
- Fall in love with the path of someone else
- Copy
- Fall in love with the way things were
- Overwork
- Need things to be perfect
- Stay behind a laptop screen
- Think things will be like this forever
- Stay within your four walls
- Avoid listening to others
- Reject empathy
- Fall in love with your industry
- Fill every minute of your calendar day
- Stay within one corner of the culture
- Discard new ideas
- Never take time off
- Consume more than you create
- Create a culture without feedback
- Need to be “right”
- Frown on those who make mistakes
- Consider yourself as boring
- Avoid talking to both the elderly, and kids
- Cut down others
