Patricia, an outgoing, engaging, perpetually smiling woman in her early 30's with a shock of unruly, prematurely grey hair, was really happy to get her first management job. She'd been a secretary, back-office worker and all-round administrative worker previously, but as purchasing manager for a major producer of food additives. she looked forward to really … Continue Reading ››
Category Archives: Happy At Work
How to be happy at work
Steve Forbes doesn’t get it – or why having the world’s highest taxes is a good thing
Happy at work in prisons
I'm back from the FutureCamp event with the Danish Prison Service and I am exhausted. After 48 gruelling but fun hours, the director of the service could take home an catalogue of a dozen ideas which had been fleshed out and about 50 more that were still hanging in the air.
The theme was to make … Continue Reading ››
Happy at work at Motek
I met Motek's CEO Ann Price at the 2006 WorldBlu Forum on democractic organizations, and her story of how they work at Motek was tremendously inspiring.
Motek make warehouse administration software and here's some of the great things they do according to this excellent article in American Way Magazine:
- Price … Continue Reading ››
The need for structure
Happy babies at work
CNN has a great story of a small company who tried an innovative solution when four key employees became pregnant at around the same time:
We had fewer than 25 employees at the time, and the soon-to-be moms were our head of publicity, a media buyer, the manager of print … Continue Reading ››
Four Fantastic Phrases at work
Help Alex write a book
I have a big announcement:
Happiness at work is my favorite topic and I believe this idea is revolutionizing the business world. But while happiness is a deep theme in more and more business books (Nuts! and The Seven-Day Weekend are prime examples), there’s still no one … Continue Reading ››
Happy At Work at IKEA
I spotted this sign in the men's room of our local IKEA:
For those (unfortunate few, I'm sure) of you who don't read Danish, it says:
I assume there's an exclusive restaurant for managers only? Erik Edelstein did not make it into IKEA's Management Potential ProgrammeHeh! So if you're the kind of manager who … Continue Reading ››
Book review: The Seven-Day Weekend
You should know one thing before you read my review of Ricardo Semler's excellent book The Seven-Day Weekend: He's my idol.
I've read his books and followed his work and I'm a fan. Completely, unashamedly, unreservedly, probably in the same way that 14-year old girls … Continue Reading ››