All happens to us: we are so focused on the day of our work which we cannot see beyond the daily tasks. While we realize how small we don’t see what happens around us. Or beyond. However, it is vital for companies (and people) not be so short-sighted. Seen the world better-funded in which we move, how Miss eyes nailed in your task and your table and you don’t lift the view you’re committing professionally. I do, that I had to reinvent myself several times already tell you.
If we make the effort to look away, we will realize that there are outside our environments potentially useful information to develop us: new trends, new technology, new articles and books, new professionals and people with interesting things to bring, and old people and books that should be re-read and reconversar. I’m not saying that companies non their daily chores. But it set aside resources to incorporate into their organizations information browsers. Explorers are needed to know well the company, sector, but have a wider view, moved by other worlds, other techniques, and other arts, because of the variety and differences will be varied and different. The companies may have explorers dedicated 100% to that task, or encourage other departments (marketing, communication or r & d) for example to be it on time partial. That Yes, in any case the company has to have the courage to let them have time and freedom to organize hunts where hunting good informative pieces. They should not be subject to the discipline of the day neither of the small tasks, but leave them manga wide walk through libraries, read books and articles, attend presentations, making acquisitions for the documentation centre of the company, to follow blogs and track competition, or companies that have nothing to do with what they are doing. Discipline that Yes have to be subjected to explorers is to the present results useful for the company, which are those who add value to the business and which also can act on them.