{"id":102,"date":"2011-11-09T21:05:27","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T04:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dltran\/?p=102"},"modified":"2011-11-13T03:40:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T10:40:32","slug":"102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dltran\/2011\/11\/09\/102\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Percent Is More Than Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If not for a certain entrepreneurial company, our daily lives would be significantly inefficient and certain beloved products would cease to exist. This company is of course, 3M, a global conglomerate consisting of scientists in its history, whom invented a series of prominent items today, most knowingly Post-It Notes. Although 3M employee Art Fry stumbled upon the adhesive paper in 1974, it was due to the fostering of 3M, which allowed his ideas to be achieved.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.katherineemmons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Post-it-cube.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThe company\u2019s \u201c15 percent program\u201d enables employees to seek their own iconic product by allotting a percentage of their paid hours towards testing their own ideas. It is this entrepreneurial characteristic of 3M that has allowed the corporation to prosper, as many of their most successful products today were dreamt up in the program. When speaking about innovation, 3M leads by example, having spawned an employee benefit that can be seen within other companies, such as Google and their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/21\/jobs\/21pre.html\">\u201c20 percent time program.\u201d<\/a> 3M\u2019s culture and philosophy of allowing employees to develop their own entrepreneurial drive has cultivated the notion of innovation within the company and its workers. Who knows when the next \u2018Post-It Note\u2019 will be discovered?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/magazine\/content\/07_24\/b4038406.htm\">Link to Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.katherineemmons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Post-it-cube.jpg\">Image Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If not for a certain entrepreneurial company, our daily lives would be significantly inefficient and certain beloved products would cease to exist. This company is of course, 3M, a global conglomerate consisting of scientists in its history, whom invented a series of prominent items today, most knowingly Post-It Notes. Although 3M employee Art Fry stumbled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9241,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dltran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dltran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dltran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dltran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dltran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dltran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dltran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dltran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dltran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dltran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}