Go ahead interrupt me<\/a><\/p>\nThere are those, and often find myself in the camp. That believe long hours of trudging along. \u00a0Will lead to success, much like the fabled\u00a0tortoise, of the “Tortoise and the Hare.” \u00a0But the kid in me want to be the hare and kit back on the grass and see what I visual in the clouds floating by.<\/p>\n
I think too often companies don’t think daydreaming or relaxing is productive and try and find way to make people work. \u00a0As an aside I believe much of the school system works this way also. \u00a0Both companies and schools believe being active and busy = productivity.<\/p>\n
I was working in an office once were there were breaks forced because we received work in drops. \u00a0So when the work was finished everyone would sit around and wait. \u00a0The company didn’t care much they were sitting around because they were paid by what they produced.<\/p>\n
The problem for me as a manager sometime people would complain that they had to wait without getting paid. \u00a0I had installed a few games on some of the computers for when I would bring my 6 year old son to work with me on Saturdays. \u00a0Some of the employees found these games and started playing during the breaks. \u00a0 As a result they stopped asking for extra money.<\/p>\n
Some of the other office managers around the country were noticing I was paying less for break time. \u00a0They asked why and I told them to install games and see what happened. \u00a0We all discovered that sometimes the employees would work faster to get done faster to be able to play the games. \u00a0And if they were playing the games they didn’t request to get paid for the game time. \u00a0Most of these worker still averaged over $15 an hour, about double the going rate for work of that kind in the area.<\/p>\n
If we can all figure out how to implement this in our offices people will be happier<\/p>\n
I’d like to know if that is possible for you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Unfortunately you can’t day dream all the time. But now and again seems to help creativity. I think this goes hand in hand with Stephen Covey’s principle of sharpening the saw. Too often I find myself ultra focused and get bogged down in the mire. I read an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal… <\/p>\n
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