Office colours

Just spent quite a while reading through the MIT building 20/22 archive website. Interesting stuff; it sounds like an unusual space in which creativity was fostered. On the site, Professor Jerrold Zacharias said of his experience that:

"...you not only start things but you also start [them] with a certain independence of mind. It's this attitude that I think you should look for in a place.... It doesn't matter that it's dirty and noisy and hot. The important thing [is] the people."

This perspective that it is the people over the environment that matters is somewhat at odds with my original post, but certainly worth considering. Could it be that rather than the physical environment, it is the social environment that is key?

The mass-produced print...

This is a strange print to have on the wall in the office, obviously there to cheer up an otherwise dull, grey space. Somehow there is no feeling behind this 'statement' because it is a mass-produced image. Or is it that as managers we should go undetected rather than be overtly present in the environment?

Marginalia

As part of this process I have been researching management theory, and have become fascinated by the 'marginalia'. There is something about trying to figure out what they were thinking that is intriguing...