p.2-3 I am interested in how play helps creativity, curiosity and exploration and more specifically how
play can help exploit tacit knowledge in complex organisational situations.
p.7 Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget (1896-1980)... argued that intelligence grows from the interaction of
the mind with the world
p.9-10 Freud (1959) made a definite link between creativity and childhood play:
Should we not look for the first traces of imaginative activity as early as in childhood? The child's best-loved
and most intense occupation is with his play or games. Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer,
in that he creates a world of his own, or, rather, re-arranges the things of his world in a new way which pleases him? It
would be wrong to think he does not take that world very seriously; on the contrary, he takes his play very seriously. pp.
143-144
This re-arranging of things lies at the heart of all work-based discovery and innovation.
p.16 Papert argued that learning happens especially well when people are engaged in constructing
a product, something external to themselves such as a sand castle, a machine, a computer program or a book.
p.18 Real Time Strategy for the Enterprise - A sequence of activities in which participants build metaphorical
models representing their organization, and then combine these into a shared identity model of the enterprise; then build
'agents' (any possible external entity which the organization may have to connect or deal with) and place these on a landscape
in relation to their main model; then build the different kinds of connections; then consider future scenarios; and ultimately
arrive at 'Simple Guiding Principles' which emerge from the activity and help to make future decisions.
p.44 Peavy (1974) proposed that:
Playfulness means being able to express the ridiculous, to be amazed, to see something from unbelievable
angles. The creative personality toys with possibilities, is willing to try out and to "waste" time and effort. By
playing around, the creativity personality lets go; he permits his imagination and the world of practicality to test each
other. By playing, the creative person frees himself from conventions, habits and conditioning. Thus he is
able to let the New emerge. p.170.
