Everyone who has been to an airport is familiar with the arrival/departure boards. At the Austin, TX airport, they capitalized on that knowledge to create a similar board with imaginary destinations. The electronic signage rotated just as real ones do but offered Interimaginary departure times and airlines. Flights were “scheduled” to places such as Hundred Acre Wood, Narnia, Moosylvania, Neverland, Peyton Place, and Shangri-La, via DystopiAir, Oddyssey Airlines, Wistful Airlines, and UtopiAir. It was a fun diversion to watch while sitting in the real waiting area.

Can you adapt this fantasy idea to something in your organization? Maybe you can make a mailbox for a fictitious character or your long-ago founder. Perhaps you can create a schedule or class roster of famous people, or it could be possible to generate a surgical schedule with Frankenstein or other monsters.

Take advantage of what is known to create some levity with an imaginary version of that reality.

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