Image courtesy of Tim Brown
Garr Reynolds over at Presentation Zen has a great article today on the power of play at work. Garr’s article gives a rundown on a recent talk by Tim Brown, the CEO of Ideo about how acting like a child can actually help you produce better results at work.
Definitely worth checking out if you have a few minutes today.
At one of my previous jobs, I had to program a multi-million pound satellite. When we got the first prototype board, the first program I made it do was one which made some red LED lights on the side of the board flash … but instead of doing it randomly or one by one, I made it go in pairs from the outside-in and out again. It was exactly like Kit in the Night Rider programmes.
I told my brother I did this so I could learn about the prototype model and that playing was the best way to learn something. He had started laughing at my way before my explanation and way afterwards too :-)
@Andy,
That’s a great story. You clearly get “the power of play” at work. Definitely check out Presentation Zen (linked above) if you haven’t yet. There’s a lot of great articles related to that at Garr’s site.
- Chris