A few months ago I shifted work premises to become part of Australasia's largest co-workingspace.
My move to
Biz Dojo
has been great. Iwrote a
As I flippantly comment to outside colleagues, there's an
(On acompletely different tangent, my early-20s daughter sometimes brings her friends in here, even ifI'm not, to check the place out – providing a completely unscientific proof of how cool itis).
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Resident numbers ebb and flow, but it's constantly creeping up and now stands at about 150residents (with 180 estimated to be this BD's maximum)
Naturally there's a broad mix of consultants – strategic, design, digital strategy, marketing,writing...you name it.
There's plenty of programmers too riding the digital wave, and social-enterprise venturessprinkled around its two large airy rooms which are about 1400m2 in area.
Then there's a range of numbers-of-employees businesses. Awa are enviromental scientists,
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The Biz Dojo kitchen, and all important espresso machine, in thebackground[/caption]
Haworth by Europlan providesall the office furniture and frequently bring potential clients here as a living showroom for itsrange of desks, isolation pods, tables and noise-reduced meeting rooms. The BD's event space isalmost infinitely reconfigurable using different pieces of Europlan's kit.
Being at the Biz Dojo In the first instance means there's a good chance that outside skills orexpertise are available in-house.
If not, there's someone who knows someone who has it.
But, most important of all – and where the opportunity cost of not being here comes into play– is the almost bottle-able sense of ideas and action, a powerful underpinning that feeds on itsown success.
This interaction was described by the late
I hope I serve his intent well by repeating it – and affirming why, for me, this is the onlyplace in town to work.
One particular area that this applies to is adult learning within a workplace Capper says.
As such, people don’t learn new knowledge by reading a book.“Adult learning occurs mostly in the spaces between people, not in their heads,” he says.“It is the conversations, the interactions between people that generates new knowledge,”particularly when people with two different areas of expertise connect.