Want to Innovate? Stop Working So Hard is a post on Librarian by Day by Bobbi Newman that reminds us that the ideas most likely to transform the way we work tend to come at moments of relaxation.
Not convinced? Check out the linked articles and video (thought he New Yorker article requires you to be a subscriber) for more in-depth persuasion.
This isn’t a call to slack, but an emphasis on prioritizing your downtime, and to recognize when an idea has that extra something to make your library world that much better. How much time can you save by making changes to your work flow? What activities and results should be priorities? Can you achieve more with less effort?
Probably!
