This month brings us the added day we encounter every four years. However, forget just the 29th, you can have the 30th as well. Really?
In February 1712 Sweden and Finland decided to add an extra Leap Day to their calendar, to move from the outdated Julian to the Gregorian version.
Better yet, if you want to make it a regular occurrence, all you need to do is become a Hobbit in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of The Rings. The world of Middle Earth always has 30 days in February – “Solmath”. (Okay, so all their months have 30 days, so you may lose the odd day as well.)
Would having an extra two days help you to achieve and improve what you do in the Investors in Excellence Standard? An extra couple of days is around 1% of working time for some organisations, and if all that bonus contribution were added together across all your people, the effect would be huge. As an example, what could be achieved on deciding What Matters Most to your organisation by spending two solid days thinking about it? Some of our techniques can be seen in our Approaches. You can apply them effectively with our Business Improvement Toolkit