I was supposed to give a speech at LEGO’s corporate center today on better meetings but the snowfall in Denmark has been so heavy, that almost no one showed up for work there.

So they decided to postpone the event and that gave me time to do some other chores, like autographing about 100 copies of my 3rd book as well as writing Christmas cards to partners, friends and customers.

Between the snow outside, the cards, our photoshoot yesterday and the Christmas music playing here at the office I’m rapidly approaching some real holiday cheer :o)

PS: Right now our office sound system is playing the Christmastime album by Danish vocal group Basix. Awesome. Check them out (song starts at 2:00):

This is us – me, Patricia and Jon doing a little photo shoot for our annual Christmas card to customers and partners.

Merry Christmas everybody :o)

This Friday’s Friday Spoing is otterly amazing:

I’m doing two speeches today at Danske Bank and Oracle. Have a happy week-end and there’ll be more blogging on Monday :o)

Aude Simon is a manager at a bank here in Copenhagen, and a few months back she promoted herself to Chief Happiness Officer. She came by our office today to tell us how she makes her employees and co-workers happier. Her main instrument is… her office door.

Here she talks to my colleague Jon about it:

That is just awesome and Aude’s co-workers love it. Little things like that take no time but still do make a difference.

Your take

Could you do this where you work? Do you already do something similar? Write a comment, I’d love to know your take.

I got this email from Samuel West in Sweden:

You, your blog and your book inspired me to write a book on happiness at work in Swedish. The book is suppose to be done before X-mas. As you know the Swedes are not as happy as the Danes at work or after work.. so we really need more happiness at work.

I am having problems with a chapter on playfulness. I don’t want to just omit it, since I think playfulness is vital to happiness at work. The examples of playfulness at work that I have are just not good enough for my book. I was wondering if you could ask your blog readers for examples of how they are playful at work. Examples of everyday playfulness!

That is an excellent question. Here are two great examples I’ve seen in other workplaces.

The Specialized lunch ride:

Zappos at work/play:

But what about you? How do YOU play at work? Give Sam a hand and write a comment below. Heck, you might even make it into his book :o)

I had a great interview today with a journalist from bnet.co.uk about loyalty and engagement at work.

She asked many interesting questions, including this one:

Some people work for horrible bosses, like the evil restaurant chefs we see on TV. Why do many people still seem to like and respect these bad managers who mistreat them?

My answer:

Stockholm Syndrome.

;o)

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