It’s taken us a while to get around to it, but here it is: Our Woohoo inc. facebook page.
Take a look at it if you have a free minute :o)
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Tiger Oil Memos
Have you seen the Tiger Oil memos? Whoah, Nelly!
It’s “…a total of 22 enormously entertaining memos; all sent by, or on behalf of, the firm’s incredibly amusing, painfully tactless, and seemingly constantly angry CEO — Edward ‘Tiger Mike’ Davis — to his staff.”
Here’s are some of my favorites.
On gossip:
Idle conversation and gossip in this office among employees will result in immediate termination.
Don’t talk about other people and other things in this office.
DO YOUR JOBS AND KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT!
I can swear – you can’t:
I swear, but since I am the owner of this company, that is my privilege, and this privilege is not to be interpreted as the same for any employee. That differentiates me from you, and I want to keep it that way. There will be absolutely no swearing, by any employee, male or female, in this office, ever.
No celebrations:
Per Edward Mike Davis’ orders, there will be no more birthday celebrations, birthday cakes, levity, or celebrations of any kind within the office. This is a business office.
If you have to celebrate, do it after office hours on your own time.
I can’t believe that company isn’t around anymore :o)
Hat-tip to Peter Billingham for telling me about these!
Also – it made me think of this classic Simpsons moment:
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Woohoo
WOW! I just went over the feedback from our last 100 client gigs (speeches, workshops, etc). The average rating is 4,8 out of 5. That’s pretty phenomenal :o)
We also ask them how likely they are on a scale of 1-10 to recommend us to other companies. 94 out of 100 give us an 8 or higher!
If you know about Net Promoter Score, that means our NPS is 73.
We rock :o)
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Friday Woohoo
Ever feel like work is a treadmill that you can’t get off? That’s no reason not to have fun:
Have a happy weekend!
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I’m speaking at one of Europe’s very best workplaces today
Normally when we get booked to speak about happiness at work in a company, it’s because they’re facing problems of some kind and want to make the company happier. They may be facing stress, layoffs, cut-backs, internal conflicts, mistrust, bad management, etc.
But tonight is different: Tonight I’m speaking at one of the very best workplaces in Europe, a bank called Frøs Herreds Sparekasse. They’ve taken our standard happiness survey, and they do seem to be ridiculously happy :o)
All I can say is…
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Want to be more creative at work? Be happy!
Yesterday I spoke at a huge media conference in Sweden – my talk was about the link between creativity and happiness at work.
In short, research shows that when you’re happy, you are more creative and have more and better ideas.
You can watch my entire talk here, it’s 15 minutes long:
What do you think? Are you more creative when you enjoy yourself at work?
The two other speakers in the same track were absolutely fascinating. There was Simon Kiyaga, a psychiatrist from Stockholm, who has studied the link between psychological disorders and creativity (and found one) and Anna Haupt, the inventor of the airbag for cyclists.
Heidi Forbes Öste made this beautiful visualization of the whole track:
(Click for full size)Awesome!
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The Happiness at Work Newsletter is back – woohoo!
After a long hiatus, we’ve reactivated the Happiness at Work Newsletter.
The latest newsletter talks about happy balls, work as punishment and happiness and rockets :o) You can read it right here and you can subscribe to future newsletters here.
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Speaking in Kuwait
Kuwait Towers.We’ve been doing a lot of international speaking lately, including in the US, England and the Caribbean (I know, it’s tough to be us). In fact, when we speak in Prague in September, it will be country number 25 we’ve done work in.
Number 26 will be Kuwait, where we’re doing 3 workshops on October 3rd and 4th. However, we’ve never spoken in the Middle East, so we could really use your help. Do you know the region? What are some dos and don’ts for business speaking in Kuwait? What would be something, the audience would really appreciate?
Any other considerations or cultural norms/expectations we should be aware of?
Thanks :o)
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I’m strange and I’m proud
My Iowan buddy Mike Wagner recently gave a fantastic TEDx talk about the value of being strange.
I absolutely consider myself to be strange… and I’m kinda proud of it.
And what’s more, I think happiness at work is only possible when you can be yourself at work, i.e. when you’re allowed to be strange or maybe even celebrated for being so.
Have you heard about Zappos’ principles? One of their values is “Create fun and a little weirdness” so they as a company celebrate strangeness.
Also this:
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
– Hunter S. Thompson.How about you? Are you strange? Are you allowed to be strange at work or do you have to conform?
