http://positivesharing.com Make Yourself and Your Business Happy At Work Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:07:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Cat Sacdalan, a graphics designer, was unhappy at work. Not only that, her father had been sick, and the fact that she'd been working at home a lot to be with him didn't sit well with some of her co-workers. Cat wrote me that: For 8 months I've been postponing my resignation. ... http://positivesharing.com/2009/07/best-resignation-letter-ever/ Happy at work in Philly The whole company (all 4 of us) were in Philadelphia for the ippa conference on Positive Psychology and we had a blast. This was the world's leading conference on the topic with tons of speakers and 1500 attendees and we got to see all the big-wigs ... http://positivesharing.com/2009/06/top-quotes-from-the-ippa-conference/ Clare over at "Thoughts from the C train" tells the story of one seeeeeeriously abusive customer: I got called that one time. Swear. Say it: Phenomenal Cesspool of Incompetence. It's brilliant! I mean seriously, who can come up with that shit? Well I'll tell you who . . . kind of. A ... http://positivesharing.com/2009/06/a-phenomenal-cesspool-of-incompetence/ In just 9 hours we (the whole company, ie. all 4 of us) fly to America to attend the ippa World Congress on Positive Psychology. After that we have some time in New York to meet with cool people and take in the city. 2009 has been amazing so far and ... http://positivesharing.com/2009/06/going-to-philly-and-nyc/ Try it yourself: Go to google, type in "my job is " and look at the suggestions. Here's what I got: Yikes! I don't mean to be hasty here, but maybe - just maybe - there's room for improvement in some workplaces :o) Related posts Top 10 bad excuses for staying in a crappy ... http://positivesharing.com/2009/06/my-job-is/ I've been doing daily (-ish) tweets for a while, where each tweet is a tip, quote or thought about happiness at work. You can follow that at twitter.com/happyatwork. I just created another twitter account for updates about what I'm up to at twitter.com/alexkjerulf. If you want a sneak peek into the ... http://positivesharing.com/2009/06/follow-me-on-twitter-x2/ Today I spoke about happiness at work and innovation at the FutureNext conference in Copenhagen. This event was arranged in part by the internationally famous Danish business leader Lars Kolind. After my presentation, Lars was kind enough to give me his honest opinion of it: Thanks, Lars - I'm blushing here :o) Related ... http://positivesharing.com/2009/06/high-praise-2/ One of the most popular posts on this blog is still the one about how not to manage geeks, which lays out the top 1o mistakes managers make in leading tech people. The post has been translated into several other languages, and now you can also read it in German: ... http://positivesharing.com/2009/06/how-not-to-lead-german-geeks/ The London Sunday Times had an article yesterday about happiness at work and why it's great to like your job. They're asking many different experts in the field, and I'm quoted as well: The biggest single step that individuals can take is to choose to be happy, said Alex Kjerulf, chief ... http://positivesharing.com/2009/06/sunday-times-happiness-is-worth-working-for/ Speakers at Arbejdsglæde Live! 2009, our annual conference about happiness at work. Last week has been the best week ever in the history of our company. It's fun to be able to look back at and go "whoah - I'm glad we don't rock that much every week :o)" Here are a ... http://positivesharing.com/2009/06/best-week-ever/