You have to create your own space which has a lot of silence in it and a lot of books.
—Susan Sontag (1933-2004)
✏️ Melody
A brush of luck;
Illness is the best reminder of one’s blessings.
I write a requiem for my old self
To remember the way home.
One only has to leave the labyrinth of his mind
To see sun and the stars never left.
Facta, non verba — deeds, not words.
💡 Food for Thought
It is bad to hurry, and delay is often as bad; the wise person is the one who does everything in its proper time.
Ovid
🧬 Paper of the Week — The perceived importance and the presence of creative potential in the health professional's work environment
Citation: Lukersmith S, Burgess-Limerick R. The perceived importance and the presence of creative potential in the health professional's work environment. Ergonomics. 2013;56(6):922-34.
The value of creative employees to an organisation's growth and innovative development, productivity, quality and sustainability is well established. This study examined the perceived relationship between creativity and work environment factors of 361 practicing health professionals, and whether these factors were present (realised) in their work environment. Job design (challenges, team work, task rotation, autonomy) and leadership (coaching supervisor, time for thinking, creative goals, recognition and incentives for creative ideas and results) were perceived as the most important factors for stimulating creativity. There was room for improvement of these in the work environment. Many aspects of the physical work environment were less important. Public health sector employers and organisations should adopt sustainable strategies which target the important work environment factors to support employee creativity and so enhance service quality, productivity, performance and growth. Implications of the results for ergonomists and workplace managers are discussed with a participatory ergonomics approach recommended.
If I wanted to order a ring for myself, the inscription I should choose would be: ‘Nothing passes away.’ I believe that nothing passes away without leaving a trace, and that every step we take, however small, has significance for our present and our future existence.
—Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
Goodbye,
AT