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Newcomers that flourish in our
environment are often offered a
key role in a new project, or
even an opportunity to manage a
project. Age and experience
aren't factors. You actually get
to pick two or three people who
will review your work, and
IDEOers invariably pick team
members. And since we live for
projects, there's an opportunity
to spread the work around.
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Make
brainstorming
a religion. The buzz of a good brainstormer can infect a team with
optimism and sense of opportunity that can carry it through the
darkest and most pressure-tinged stages of the project. |
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Play with your physical workplace in a
way that sends positive "body language" to employees and visitors. |
Tom Kelley
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Pranks became second nature.
Windshield cement inspired many
office pranks: You'd leave your
desk only to return to find
everything glued down: soda
cans, papers, pens. David's door
was once glued shut when he was
getting a pitch from a
salesperson. Another office was
webbed in by the sticky trails
from a hot glue gun. There were
rubber band wars and squirt
skirmishes (similar to the
pranks at
Apple at the time), and
plenty of water balloons dropped
out of the window.
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