Narayan Newton

I'm a pretty big fan of Google's 20% time. To those who don't know, this is a policy where employees are allowed to work on "their own" project for 20% of the time. For some managers, this would seem terrifying or just stupid. However, in reality it allows your employees to work on what they are passionate about and, shocking I know, sometimes they have good ideas and their ideas make you money. At the very least they gain experience. I'd much rather have an employee learning new things on my dime than stagnating on "their own time."