You’ve probably had some of your best ideas in the shower.
Why not at work?
“We’re paid to have our best ideas at work, but we never do, do we?” says Duncan Wardle, former head of innovation and creativity at The Walt Disney Company. Wardle has since founded his own creative consulting company, ID8, and spoke with CNBC Make It from WOBI’s World Business Forum in New York City on Nov. 6.
Between tasks like emails, presentations and meetings, many workers’ responsibilities don’t necessarily encourage creativity or innovation, not to mention many just “don’t have time to think” at work, Wardle says.
Wardle thinks he has a solution. He uses what he calls “energizers” to get people’s creative juices flowing at work. An energizer, by his definition, is simply “a 60-second exercise specifically designed to make you laugh.”
