The most interesting and cutting-edge business conferences of the year will be The WorldBlu Forum on organizational democracy.
It's in DC on October 26-29, and the participants will all be leaders under 40. Organizational democracy is one of the most crucial concepts organizations must learn to suceed in the future. The current … Continue Reading ››
Category Archives: Happy At Work
How to be happy at work
Book review: Life on the line
Solange de Santis is a journalist who'd never held a blue collar job in her life. She wondered what it would be like, so she took such a job. For a year and a half! Now that's commitment.
But it's also something more. What drove her was partly curiosity about a different work environment and the … Continue Reading ››
Quote
It's late friday night at the end of a long, hot summer week. As I push on the next liner, feeling my neck and shoulders ache, I spot one of the trainers and his buddy tiptoeing behind the parts racks with a truly magnificent weapon, a slingshot made of rubber tubing that's so big one … Continue Reading ››
Conference on change and happiness at work
We're arranging another conference on happiness at work, and this time the focus is on how to be happy during changes. Read more about the conference.
New website
We took a look at our current website for the Happiness at Work Project, and found it to be horribly crowded! There's information about us, our products and our results. And there's articles, news, resources, downloads and lots of other stuff. Too confusing!
So we split out all the resources stuff to a new … Continue Reading ››
So we split out all the resources stuff to a new … Continue Reading ››
Storytelling
When even the Harvard Business School turns on to storytelling, you know its gone mainstream. Which is entirely a good thing. I've been using stories a lot in the work I do, and I really enjoy the way an audience will go quiet and lean forward in their chairs when you say "I'd like … Continue Reading ››
A happy cab driver
Few people would put cab driver at the top of the list of "jobs most likely to make me happy", but there's one New York cabbie who's making his own happiness by playing matchmaker to his single customers:
The 50-year-old Egyptian immigrant sets up blind dates for his single passengers through a free, impromptu matchmaking … Continue Reading ››
No need to succeed
My main tool in coping with all the stuff going on in the Happy at Work Project right now has been to remind myself, that I don't need to suceed. Every time I start to stress a little I think "This does not need to work out. It does not need to be a success. … Continue Reading ››
Living vs. blogging
I haven't been blogging much lately, and the reason is simple: I'm too busy living to write about living :o)
The happy at work project is going so well, that it's taking up all my time right now, I could fill page after page with all the good stuff that's happening for us right … Continue Reading ››
The happy at work project is going so well, that it's taking up all my time right now, I could fill page after page with all the good stuff that's happening for us right … Continue Reading ››
Coffee in the office… or office in the coffee house?
Wired has an article on a company that use a coffee house as their office:
Delicious Monster is the Mac software company behind the hit Delicious Library, a program for cataloging collections of books, movies and games. The software is selling like hot cakes and has garnered rave reviews and awards, yet the company's … Continue Reading ››