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What if you don’t have leadership buy-in to create playspace?

on Wed, 04/07/2010 - 00:00

In these first few weeks since From Workplace to Playspace has been out I have had the pleasure of sharing some of its key concepts with a wide range of audiences, including creativity and innovation experts, MBA and training and development graduate students, managers and employees, and HR professionals. One of the most consistent questions I have received so far is “What if you don’t have leadership buy in to create playspace in your organization?”



My response to this comes in two, seemingly contradictory, parts:

1) We all can make choices and behave in ways that influence the quality of

The Tryanny of the Task

on Sat, 11/28/2009 - 00:00

The other day at the start of a meeting with my Playspace colleagues I noticed an interesting impulse. I knew we had a lot on the agenda and a relatively short time to move through it all. I had the impulse to abandon our few minute ritual of taking some Be. Here. Now. Time to get into our bodies, release distractions and become present to ourselves and the collaboration at hand. In my anxiousness to get to the task, I also considered dispensing with a brief creative warm-up, another ritual we have adopted to bring playspace to life in our collaborations.

Gratefully, when I gingerly proposed