The Corporation is a Canadian documentary released last year, which has an interesting premise: Under current law, a corporation is a person. But what kind of person?
Considering the odd legal fiction that deems a corporation a ?person? in the eyes of the law, the feature documentary employs a checklist, based on actual … Continue Reading ››
Category Archives: Happy At Work
How to be happy at work
Declaration of content
Inspired by an ancient MAD Magazine article, I did this declaration of content, for the "happy at work" conference:
How does that sound?
| Typical conference | Our conference | |||
Talk: | 45% 25% 2% 2% 1% 25% | Talk: Action: Innovation: | 25% 50% 25% |
How does that sound?
Happy at work conference
I'm very proud to announce the happy at work conference on May 27 in Copenhagen.
We have a great program for the day, with more action and less talk than most conferences. And in a novel twist, we're making the day a "Powerpoint free zone". There are many great ways to use … Continue Reading ››
We have a great program for the day, with more action and less talk than most conferences. And in a novel twist, we're making the day a "Powerpoint free zone". There are many great ways to use … Continue Reading ››
Motivation games
Yahoo has a whole section on Work/Life health with some interesting stuff in it. I especially enjoyed some of the games describes in this article.
Book review: Synchronicity
Synchronicity, the inner path of leadership by Joseph Jaworski is the story of his own transformation as a leader. From his earlier life (as he calls it) as a trial lawyer to his quest of identifying and promoting better leadership.
His transformation began, as it often happens, with a personal tragedy. Until his wife left … Continue Reading ››
Nonviolent communication
Nonviolent communication (nvc) is an excellent tool, especially for communicating in difficult situations. Like telling an employee he's fired, criticizing someones work or reprimanding a child.
The Center for nonviolent communication have an excellent overview of nvc.
Marshall B. Rosenberg, the man behind nvc says in an interview:
We … Continue Reading ››
The Center for nonviolent communication have an excellent overview of nvc.
Marshall B. Rosenberg, the man behind nvc says in an interview:
We … Continue Reading ››
I’m a clown
Yep, this sunday (feb. 29) the "happy at work project" arranged a clown course for some people, and I'm now a certified, first grade clown.
The story is this: Back in november, Lise Egeberg who is a hospital clown, asked around for contributions to a trip she wanted to take to Jamaica to visit … Continue Reading ››
The story is this: Back in november, Lise Egeberg who is a hospital clown, asked around for contributions to a trip she wanted to take to Jamaica to visit … Continue Reading ››
Interesting times
These are really exciting times for the happy at work project. We're meeting lots of interesting people and good things just eem to keep happening to us. I love it! That's also why I haven't been posting for a few days.
Here's just a few of the good things that have come up recently:
Continue Reading ››
Here's just a few of the good things that have come up recently:
Continue Reading ››
Linkshare
A few interesting links:
World Database of happiness - An ongoing register of scientific research on subjective appreciation of life.
Learn improv - Lots of improv exercises for all occasions.
Using moral imagination for irreplicable strategic advantage - It pays to be moral according to this paper.
Continue Reading ››
World Database of happiness - An ongoing register of scientific research on subjective appreciation of life.
Learn improv - Lots of improv exercises for all occasions.
Using moral imagination for irreplicable strategic advantage - It pays to be moral according to this paper.
Continue Reading ››
Posters
The latest idea from the Happy At Work project is a set of posters with some of our slogans on them. The posters are free of any copyrights, you can do with them whatever you want. Mail them to others, put them on your website, hang them in your office or whatever else you can … Continue Reading ››