{"id":6990,"date":"2017-02-14T17:26:18","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T09:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6990"},"modified":"2017-02-14T17:26:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T09:26:18","slug":"why-cross-pollinating-your-work-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/14\/why-cross-pollinating-your-work-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Cross-Pollinating Your Work, Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Presently we call the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company 3M, and Dick Drew\u2019s insight in the early 1920\u2019s wasn\u2019t an anomaly, it is the type of innovation that has defined 3M as a company. What\u00a0made them so consistently creative and innovative? \u20263M has a \u201cflexible attention\u201d policy. In most companies, flexible attention means goofing off on the company dime. In 3M it means playing a game, taking a nap, or going for a walk across an extensive campus to admire the deer. 3M knows that creative ideas don<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.farnamstreetblog.com\/2017\/02\/cross-pollination\/\">Why Cross-Pollinating Your Work, Works<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presently we call the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company 3M, and Dick Drew\u2019s insight in the early 1920\u2019s wasn\u2019t an anomaly, it is the type of innovation that has defined 3M as a company. What\u00a0made them so consistently creative and innovative? \u20263M has a \u201cflexible attention\u201d policy. In most companies, flexible attention means goofing off &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/14\/why-cross-pollinating-your-work-works\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Cross-Pollinating Your Work, Works&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}