Getting People to Play Really Helps Creativity

Getting People to Play Really Helps Creativity

By Dr Tom DePaoli

One of my stories in my book Common Sense Supply Management tells of me setting up an entire future plant layout on a large boardroom table in a conference room. We kept the conference room well stocked with free coffee and treats. Employees from all levels of the company would come in the conference room and play with the layout, forklifts, machines etc. We had a big whiteboard and asked people to jot down their suggestions for the layout. We went to the shop floor and testing many of the ideas live to see if they worked. We generated so many ideas that it was hard to keep up with them! Encouraging play encourages creativity!

Dr. Tom DePaoli, (Dr. Tom) is currently an independent management consultant, the Principal of Apollo Solutions, which does general business consulting in the human resources, supply chain and lean six sigma areas. His organization was self-founded in 1995. He retired as a Captain from the Navy Reserve. In other civilian careers, he was a supply chain and human resources executive with corporate purchasing turnaround experience and lean six sigma deployments. He has worked for over ten major companies and consulted for over fifty organizations throughout his career. Some of his consulting projects include: information systems projects, re-engineering organizations, transformation, e-procurement, e-commerce, change management, global sourcing and negotiating. His industry experience is in the chemical, paper, pharmaceutical, IT, automotive, government, consumer, equipment, services and consulting industries. He has been published extensively in journals, magazines and books. He is the author of eleven books all available on Amazon.  He has instructed at six education facilities in numerous roles. He is active in supporting the YMCA, Wounded Warrior, and the prevention of the bullying of children.

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