2). Name five cultural barriers to creativity. What do you think these would keep a group from being creative? Have you experienced any of these personally? Explain.
After reading Harris and Sherblom's text, the five cultural barriers to creativity include a requirement for conformity, an expectation of practicality and efficiency, a trust in the power of reason and logic, a belief in an either/or perspective on issues, and reliance of expert knowledge. In my thought, I believe these five cultural barriers completely keep the group being creative. Sometimes, group members have different cultural behavior that may have different opinions during discussion. Clearly, the conformity, trust, and the belief on issues play the important roles to let members have interdependence and make conclusion at the end. In my fellowship at church, we always have different thoughts about the activities in every calendar year. In order to make things going proper and efficient, we usually make a list of activities and search for second opinions from the reliance and expert. After filtering their opinions, we prepare the modified list of activities and discuss with our members. If most of the activities fit in the members’ needs, then we make the conclusion. Literally, this conclusion absolutely depends on conformity, trust, and belief on issues in the group. Besides, I also support an expectation of practicality and efficiency which is the supplementary and very helpful to avoid the entropy in group members as well.
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Hi Kam,
ReplyDeleteI think you give a great example on culture barriers on creativity. I have the same problem with my family. I think when there are too many people involved, doing something important and that is going to affect everybody, it is hard to be creative. When we try to find same safe decision, at the same time creativity decreases in the situation. I think that is hard to balance between the two. When being creative, it takes some encourage, because “some of our most creative moments occur when we are willing to play, question, challenge, and enjoy solving problem”(p.189). When there are so many barriers involves, its hard for us to be creative and take chances.
-Sogo