Hey! Let's reshen up your workspace.Are you working in a time-capsule, a museum, a picture of yesterday?Or a vision for what tomorrow can be?In 1997, when Steve Jobs returned as Apple CEO after his 12-year exile, he made a decision that shocked every member of the company.Jobs' first instruction was to remove from the building all traces of Apple's former glory..The awards. Framed magazine covers. Iconic ad campaigns. All of it... gone before lunchtime on his first day.But why?Jobs wanted his people to people to look forwards. To invite the future. Not to yearn for the past..The workplace must not be a shrine, full of sentimental relics.What good will they do for you today, in the middle of the greatest economic challenge of our lifetime?Instead, go the opposite way.Transform your environment into an ever-evolving showcase of work in progress, new targets and mini-milestones. Think of the message this will send to your team.
Hey! Let's reshen up your workspace.Are you working in a time-capsule, a museum, a picture of yesterday?Or a vision for what tomorrow can be?In 1997, when Steve Jobs returned as Apple CEO after his 12-year exile, he made a decision that shocked every member of the company.Jobs' first instruction was to remove from the building all traces of Apple's former glory..The awards. Framed magazine covers. Iconic ad campaigns. All of it... gone before lunchtime on his first day.But why?Jobs wanted his people to people to look forwards. To invite the future. Not to yearn for the past..The workplace must not be a shrine, full of sentimental relics.What good will they do for you today, in the middle of the greatest economic challenge of our lifetime?Instead, go the opposite way.Transform your environment into an ever-evolving showcase of work in progress, new targets and mini-milestones. Think of the message this will send to your team.
