Well, wouldn’t we all love to unleash more creativity…
Thomas Edison said that genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. I am not discounting the perspiration part, but especially in times of stress we sometimes forget to leave room for the 1% that fuels the other 99. Particularly if your job does not involve using Photoshop or After Effects, you may not realize how much creativity goes into what you do. But there is creativity in all human endeavor. Sometimes great benefit can arise from creative ideas that may far outweigh the effort involved. Whether it’s an idea that enables two people work better together (even if they don’t work for me), finding a better way of phrasing a concept in a proposal, or completely rethinking how we do business with a particular client, all these solutions come, not from hammering harder at the idea, but sitting back and accessing a more creative part of my brain. (more…)
When people give tours of D2 they usually show people my couch. It’s a pretty plain couch – half of a sectional, kind of patched up and it cost $100. Is it so unusual? Do people assume because you are comfortable you can’t be working? In fact, we have great meetings in my office. You have to get there early to get a spot on the couch (hehehe). Because the couch is so comfy, people aren’t as likely to jump up and say “is this meeting done?” I believe it has a certain therapeutic effect – people seem to come in to blow off a little steam, that’s always good for company morale.
