Fun

Is your work fun?

Or, do your days at the office feel like a slog...does it feel like work?

Start-ups are fun places to spend time in.

Perhaps because there are limited financial resources to throw at people, the culture of fun and enjoyment is what compels people to join the idealistic mission to change the world.

It's thanks to the late pizza nights, monthly breakfasts, quirky rituals and birthday bombs that teams bond and collectively build a brand that disrupts.

Corporates on the other hand, are very serious places.

People dress in suits and are constantly making sure that everyone else is fully-aware of just how brilliant they are.

The focus is on productivity, and fun is only had (now and again) at conferences (where the veil of seriousness is temporarily lowered and things get predictably...rather messy).

But it's always easy to tell the difference between what gets produced from an environment of work, versus a place of fun.

Too much gets written about innovation that largely ignores the importance of fun as a critical part of the mix.

It's simply not rational to believe that people, who don't think of their workplace as an environment where fun can be had, are going to create anything that anyone else will find enthralling.

A culture that is lacking in fun, is a culture in which people are not able to access the best part of themselves or each other.

The product of work is everywhere, but things created from a place of fun are what we gravitate towards.

Innovation and outperformance are much easier to achieve when you simply eliminate everything that makes the journey towards them overly-laborious.