Category Archives: Happy At Work
How to be happy at work
What I wish I knew 20 years ago
Here's a great article by Peter Grazier who has worked with employee involvment for 25 years:
When I began working with employee involvement concepts in 1980, I was unbelievably ignorant of the human dimension of organization performance. As a degreed engineer, most of my training had been in the "hard" sciences … Continue Reading ››
A question for ya: Three tips for you
I recently asked which three tips you would give your boss.
Here's a sneaky follow-up: What three tips would your boss and co-workers give you, to make yourself happier at work, if they could freely speak their minds?
Drop a comment, I'd really like to know.
Monday Tip: Why do we like our jobs
Your mission for this monday is to have a conversation with another person in your workplace about this topic: What do we like about working here?
Possible subtopics could be:
- Which people do we appreciate
- What do we like about our jobs
- What's the best thing about working … Continue Reading ››
F***ing cool
Kevin Briody doesn't want people to think that his products are good:
I don’t want their reaction to be a measured, rational, dispassionate analysis of why the product is better than the alternatives, how the cost is more reasonable, feature set more complete, ... I want “f**king cool! Period. I want that pure sense of wonder, … Continue Reading ››
Work-life balance links
I'll round of the Work-Life Balance theme this week with a few good links about it from other blogs:
Tim King on work-life balance and thought work
You can’t see a thought-worker’s thoughts, so you can’t measure them. You have to measure what you can see, and you have two … Continue Reading ››
I’m sitting here but I’m blown away!
This is awesome: Last night I write a post that I could really use some help in evaluating my book on happiness at work. 12 hours later, almost 40 people have signed up to help. This absolutely rocks!!! This is why I blog.
I've always believed that everything we need is all around us - if … Continue Reading ››
Help me evaluate my book
Alrighty - my book about happiness at work is aaaaaaalmost there. Now I could really use your opinion and feedback.
I'm doing my final write-through this week and I'm incredibly happy with it. Either this is a friggin' great book or I'm seriously deluded. But why don't you tell … Continue Reading ››
Journey into leadership: Bullet points!
This post is part of a series that follows A.M. Starkin, a young manager taking his first major steps into leadership. Starkin writes here to share his experiences and to get input from others, so please share with him your thoughts and ideas.
This will be the Great Starkin Bulletpoint Post - … Continue Reading ››