You are a manager, engineer, salesperson ... whatever your profession, it is important to surprise the mind in your profession. For a salesperson, customer has to be surprised to grab the attention, for a manager the team has to be surprised to show the extra organization takes care of engineers, for engineer the peers and boss has to surprised to show extra talent the engineer brings to the table.
There is constant struggle between mind smoothening out the environment in its perception and you as a creator of environment un-smoothening it. You do new things to environment, mind notices it, stays surprised for sometime and then smoothens it out. Good news is that we are talking mind of humans, which do not have infinite history stored or used for smoothening. So, in a party you can surprise others by wearing a 1960 style dress.
But, why would one need to surprise minds? Let me focus the discussion to a manager in Software organization. Firstly, if as a manager you do not surprise people, you give a perception of incompetitiveness. The problem with this is that others will take on the role of surprising and later it will turn out that everybody would be doing little bit of everybody's role and one would lose execution.
Secondly, by suprising minds you go into permanent memory. Bigger bang for buck!
Thridly, engineers will copy you and you will see innovation in their area too.
And then "Law of Unintended Consequences" will take you higher in the hierarchy.
Well many managers know this, but few of them implement in India. The first step is to imitate what managers in US have learnt and take courageous steps to repeat it india. It is a good idea to leave it to engineers at times so that they get to chose how to have fun, but at times manager has to do what no engineer would have thought. Here are some of the ideas.
Take your team to massage therapy or some relaxation therapy (Mind Body and Soul).
Buy a outstation trip ticket for engineer.
Buy a ticket to movie for enginner and his/her spouse.
Book a cinema hall for team offsite.
More on brain ... http://www.youramazingbrain.org.uk/
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