[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