My whole philosophy about fun in the world of business, and in relation to the executive, management, and professional audience is this: If you don’t enjoy what you’re doing, is it worth doing? Because the higher up you go, the easier it is to think that you have to get more “serious” about the work you do. Well, you were “serious” about it when you were lower down the totem pole, weren’t you? And you were still having fun then. A lot of this has to do with responsibility. As we add on more, we often feel as though “fun” becomes responsibility’s polar opposite. And it even starts at an early age. When we teach our children about responsibility, it’s often a very serious thing, and rarely connected with having fun. Seriously. When’s the last time you ever heard of a kid’s board game with “Responsibility” in the title?
