100 Reasons Why You Don’t Get Your Best Ideas at Work

I’m pretty sure some of yours are on this list

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Since 1987, I’ve asked more than 2,500 people from these organizations where and when they get their best ideas. Less than 2% have said “the workplace.” Might this be the case for you? If so, which of the following can you relate to?

1. You have way much to do and not enough time

2. Any time you get a head of steam, you are assigned a new project

3. Your company’s culture is not conducive to creative thinking

4. You are sleep deprived most of the time

5. Mental clutter

6. Fear that someone will steal your great idea

7. You don’t think of yourself as a creative person

8. Having to attend boring meetings that put you in a bad mood

9. You’re not measured for the new ideas you generate and develop

10. Bureaucracy, bureaucracy, bureaucracy

11. Constantly changing priorities