FUN AND PLAY

There is an air of lightness that the creative mind craves. Walk into a roomful of inspired artists and you will sense it. It is an energy that allows the creative spirit to free itself from limitations, that enables it to envision the changing of context and conditions that is a prerequisite to invention. Fun and play, in bringing that nimbleness, that buoyancy, help to maintain the spirit that invites novelty to emerge.

Carrying on social activities, even corporate-dictated ones, as a group and bringing to them the lightness and creativity to turn them into truly fun events allows the group to experiment with combinations of social forms and rules that would not be conceivable in the everyday world of organization. But, as discussed ...

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