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HBR Guide to Unlocking Creativity
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HBR Guide to Unlocking Creativity

by Harvard Business Review
June 2023
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
3h 56m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
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CHAPTER 5

Get Your Brain Unstuck

by Ron Friedman

Your colleagues logged off hours ago, but you’re still staring at the screen, waiting for a breakthrough. You haven’t produced anything substantive for hours. Yet for reasons you can’t understand, it’s been impossible to walk away. Even now, the answer seems so close.

If your work involves creative thinking, you are bound to encounter times like this—times when you feel stuck. Perhaps you’re not sure how to start a project, respond to a client email, or structure an upcoming presentation. You’re trying to be productive, yet as you turn the problem over in your head again and again, you find yourself running into the same barriers.

When this happens, a common reaction is to redouble your efforts. ...

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ISBN: 9781647825072