The Importance of Exploration in the Workplace

In terms of human evolution there are really two ways to go out and try to find good things. In the workplace exploration basically means letting people try different things trying different techniques. Evidence about the best periods in people's careers suggests that they first explore but then when they find something that seems to work they exploit. That was a manager would you approach it then to help somebody through this situation? The first thing to do is to as as Miles Davis did with Herbie Hancock is to turn the temperature down a little bit.