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Keeping US AllTogether. Ways Places Means. Lego's Fantastic Instructions For Parents In 1973. If you care about inspiring children with an interest in engineering and aspirations not bound by their gender, this note may bring a tear to your eye. Two tears actually, both because it is so eloquently beautiful, and because it shows that in a lot of ways we have gone backwards over the last forty years. Lego has been criticized recently for its move to gender its toys, creating “girl's Lego” and producing, in the words of one seven year old, female characters that “sit at home, go to the beach, and shop," while the boy characters "saved people, had jobs, even swam with sharks!

" To their credit Lego has taken this on board to some extent, with a line of women scientists, but the sad thing is that they needed to be pushed. Because there was a time when the Danish company got these things so, so right. When reddit user fryd_ posted this image at imgur and said it came from a 1974 box of Lego, plenty of people disputed its authenticity. LEGO SERIOUS PLAY - BUILD YOUR WAY TO BETTER BUSINESS. Serious Play Starter Kit Detailed Contents. Science of LEGO Serious Play (LSP) Top Ten Reasons to use LEGO Serious Play | Serious Play Pro.

LEGO_SERIOUS_PLAY_OpenSource_14mb.pdf. Serious Play Pro | Lego Serious Play Facilitator Network. Lego Serious Play. Lego Serious Play. Lego Serious Play in action Lego Serious Play is a consultant service offered by a Lego Serious Play Certified Facilitator. Its goal is fostering creative thinking through team building metaphors of their organizational identities and experiences using Lego bricks.

Participants work through imaginary scenarios using visual three-dimensional Lego constructions, hence the name "serious play".[1] The method is described as "a passionate and practical process for building confidence, commitment and insight". The approach is based on research which suggests that hands-on, "minds-on" learning produces a deeper, more meaningful understanding of the world and its possibilities.

Origins of Lego Serious Play[edit] Johan Roos and Bart Victor created the “serious play” concept and process in the mid-1990s as way to enable managers to describe, create and challenge their views of their business. From experiment to product[edit] Initially the owner of the Lego Company, Mr. The research effort[edit] Histoire. Go Team! Games @ Work. GameStudys. LEGO My LEGO. Ethos of Us.