Most of us work with groups, and I put this up because the d.school, the design school at Stanford, thanks to David Kelley and a lot of others who have been visionary about its establishment, has allowed a group of us to get together and create a course called "" From Play to Innovation. "" And you'll see this course is to investigate the human state of play, which is kind of like the polar bear-husky state and its importance to creative thinking: "" to explore play behavior, its development and its biological basis; to apply those principles, through design thinking, to promote innovation in the corporate world;