{"id":855,"date":"2010-02-12T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.keenertech.com\/?p=855"},"modified":"2010-02-12T19:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T19:08:00","slug":"puzzle-solving-and-corporate-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/?p=855","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle Solving and Corporate Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s a new tradition at MetroStar Systems. It started when someone left a 1000-piece Christmas puzzle in the lunch room at MetroStar&#8217;s headquarters in Reston, VA. It quickly became a collaborative effort with many employees participating in solving the puzzle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nobody spends very long working at the puzzle. People just mosey on by, place a piece or two, and then leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Now, it&#8217;s simply become expected that when one puzzle is solved, a new one will soon magically appear in the lunch room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/puzzle.jpg\" alt=\"Puzzles at work...\" class=\"wp-image-856\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/puzzle.jpg 500w, https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/puzzle-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new tradition at MetroStar Systems. It started when someone left a 1000-piece Christmas puzzle in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[159],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","tag-puzzles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}