Playworks honors the Most Playful CEO, Trip Hawkins.
If You Can company's Trip Hawkins is the 2013 Playworks Most Playful CEO. As former CEO and Founder of the large gaming company Electronics Arts, Hawkins knows a lot about how play makes happy, creative and productive employees. In Trip Hawkins words, “The way you learn is through play”. And Trip practices just this. As a leader, he is not afraid to play and use his imagination. It is with this playful attitude that powerful ideas are born. Introducing 2013 Most Playful CEO Trip Hawkins:
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