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[Reprinted with permission from DePaul Workplace Learning blog]

If you are like most of us, you likely got the idea along the way that work and play are incompatible. Work is serious, focused and productive while play is silly, unfocused and unproductive. This belief was socialized into us from a very early age with parents and caregivers who shooed us away when we attempted to recruit a playmate with “Not now, honey, can’t you see I’m working?”

Pamela talks about putting more play into work in this recent First Business Interview

As it turns out individuals and organizations

The two most salient factors influencing organizational agility, according to a comprehensive review of research done in the field (Bottani, 2010) are:

1.    Employees role and competency in the company

2.    Technology: Virtual enterprise tools and metrics and the adoption of information technology systems

What does this mean for your learning and development

Earlier this fall I had the wonderful opportunity to spend an extravagant afternoon drinking tea with Jeremy Shapiro. Dr. Shapiro served as the chair of my dissertation committee and continues to be a mentor, role model and dear friend. Though he is a gifted scholar, well-regarded philosopher and early English language translator of Jürgen Habermas’ work, I was drawn to work with him because of his humility, endless curiosity and delightful sense of humor.