LEVITAT

An extract from ‘The Pursuit of WOW!’ by Tom Peters:

What if we managers put rebirth at the top of our agendas? … suggestions:

• Take a serious daily break. I’m worried about my new, high-speed Canon copier. What will I do now for a break? I find – seriously – that many of my best ideas have come while I stood by my old copier, feeding in 75 pages, one at a (slow) time. Planned coffee breaks are one (good) thing, but I’m talking about something else, a real pause to refresh or redirect our brain waves.

My own thoughts on this? I never had that slow a copier, but I do often find that I think up a solution as soon as I stop thinking about the problem. Unfortunately, it is usually just as I’m about to fall off to sleep and I have to wake myself up to write it down incase I have forgotten by morning!