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The Play Advantage: 4 Real Examples of How Leaders Turn New Lenses Into Growth and Success
In the first article, we saw that humans don’t just experience reality through senses, but through stories. Those stories shape everything from money and status to what a conflict “means” at work. They help us function and collaborate, but they also become dangerous when we forget they are stories and start treating them as reality itself.
Play With Reality: From Fixation to New Possibilities
“Human beings are the only species who believe in things that don’t exist.” (Yuval Noah Harari) Did you know that every animal in nature experiences the world in a unique way? Bats “see” the world through sound waves, sharks sense electrical fields, and flies taste the world through their feet (thank god we’re not). Each of them perceives only part of reality, through the senses and filters that nature gave them.
Play with Reality: Personally and in the Organization
“The real problem is not the problem. The problem is the way we perceive the problem.” Want to play a cool game? There is a special prize waiting for every winner. Here are the instructions: Attached is a list of situations from the workplace. If you have never experienced even one of these situations, you win the grand prize!
The Playful Organizational Operating System: How to Move from I HAVE TO to I WANT TO
We tend to say these things at work, especially under pressure. They sound like the slogans of serious and committed professionals. But more often than not, they are a symptom. They signal that we are running an old version of "work": one that produces compliance, but quietly drains engagement, meaning, and the kind of performance that we really looking for.
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