I spent today at a conference that accompanies the announcement of Denmarks best workplaces, arranged by the greatplacetowork institute of Denmark. This year the winner is Kjaer group from my hometown Svendborg who sell cars to developing countries. Their motto is "Love cars, love people, love life". You gotta love that.
The … Continue Reading ››
Category Archives: Happy At Work
How to be happy at work
Quote
Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive. - Harold Whitman
Simplicity – complexity – simplicity
I posted an Oliver Wendell Holmes quote a while ago:
I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.Sandy Wilder of Communico used this quote in his presentation at the CEO round table, and that got … Continue Reading ››
Incentives do not work
If you want your employees to perform well, conventional wisdom says that you must give them lots of incentives. Stuff like free phone calls, company cars, gold stars, employee of the month awards are necessary, right? Wrong! Incentives, and the ensuing competition, actually make matters worse, and remove peoples attention from their work. This makes … Continue Reading ››
Conference coming up
We're hosting Denmarks (the worlds?) first conference on happiness at work. We've been working on it for a while now, generating ideas, lining up speakers, preparing the material, and here are the basic facts:
* Thursday January 29, 9-6
* Held in N?rrebrohallen
* 4 speakers before lunch
* Lots of … Continue Reading ››
* Thursday January 29, 9-6
* Held in N?rrebrohallen
* 4 speakers before lunch
* Lots of … Continue Reading ››
Book review: All hat and no cattle
This book is the story of Chris Turner, and her work to bring change, learning and empowerment into Xerox. It's a highly entertaining book, right from this first line: "My family never did hold much with organized religion. The fact is, we ended up in Texas because my great-grandfather roughed up a priest in … Continue Reading ››
Book review: Corporate Kindergarten
What is the value of play in the corporate world, and how could we go about introducing more of it? These are the main questions that Jesper Bove-Nielsen examines in his book Corporate Kindergarten.
This book falls somewhere between manifest, business book and academic book. It has the depth and reach of a good business … Continue Reading ››
Quote
I'm a businessman, but I'm still going to do things on my own terms. I'm going to break a lot of rules, and we're going to blur the distinction between work and play. So we have a policy here - it's called "Let My People Go Surfing." A policy which is, when the surf comes … Continue Reading ››
Beaten to it – by the Dalai Lama
We're currently writing a book about happiness at work that will:
* Describe why happiness at work is important to both companies and employees
* Show concrete methods that are proven to work
* Attempt to energize the reader to work towards being happy at work
The writing is going beautifully. I'm finding … Continue Reading ››
* Describe why happiness at work is important to both companies and employees
* Show concrete methods that are proven to work
* Attempt to energize the reader to work towards being happy at work
The writing is going beautifully. I'm finding … Continue Reading ››
Want happiness at work? Control your own time!
Giving employees something to smile about at the office may be as simple as offering them more control over their time, its recent survey suggests. One-third (33 percent) of workers polled said greater schedule flexibility would result in increased job satisfaction.
From an article in the Sillicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal.
From an article in the Sillicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal.