How We Invest in Our People - Education!
I just saw this post from Matt at the 37 Signals blog about the benefit of “playtime” on innovation in the workplace. It’s a brief thought but a very important one. Matt pulls a quote from Jim Coudal that is right on:
Most of the smart, creative, successful people I know spend a good deal of time looking for inspiration, tracking down ideas and doing research. We do all those things too, we just don’t have a problem with calling it what it is, “goofing around.” Play is essential, it’s through play that you find connections between things that might not be at all obvious through logic or practicality. If you don’t have any accidents how are you ever going to have happy ones?He goes on to mention other examples of how companies invest in innovation by giving their employees some free time. How does Newfangled do this? Well, we do this in several different ways that I think accumulate to a holistic investment in our people and their minds… Read More >
