by Marjan Venema What was your reaction to the 12 steps when you first saw them? Be honest now. I’m sure there were some steps that you felt totally comfortable with. Maybe you were even already practicing them and had a bit of an internal “pat on the back” celebration. I’m also pretty sure that...
Read moreby Jennifer Riggins As Jurgen’s blogpost last week already talked about, the we have discovered our three core values: Dare to be bold. Always be kind. Make it creative. In the blogpost, we added our own improv photos of what we see as the we thought symbolized “Dare to be bold.” and “Make it creative.” (Of course,...
Read moreby Giovanni Battista Pozza Don’t put off til tomorrow the happiness that you can enjoy today. Happiness can be measured in an experience-based way rather than using considerations of how well life is going overall. Those considerations are usually too vague to push us to change our lives and make a commitment or action. Obviously...
Read moreby Ryan Lockard Roughly eight years ago, I stood in my basement office afraid to sit so I didn’t fall asleep. It was the third day managing a project cutover that was meant to be completed in two days—a critical series of technical issues had us stuck at 50 percent complete and well past the...
Read moreby Sergey Kotlov A couple of years ago, a series of articles about a company called Futurice and how they were creating a workplace environment in which people loved to go to work was published here. At the time I didn’t imagine for a minute that Futurice would become one of the first companies to...
Read moreby Alex Heinz We spend about half of our waking day at work, so shouldn’t we be doing something that makes us happy? For some, happiness comes from working with a great group of people, for others it’s about working towards a worthy cause. There are many factors that play into workplace happiness including work...
Read moreby Jurgen Appelo So… my team at Happy Melly came up with a new idea. They organize online dance parties. Every Friday morning, in our virtual team meeting, one person gets to choose a dance song, and then all others are asked to dance to it, for a couple of minutes. I’m not kidding. Where...
Read moreby Jennifer Riggins Happiness is way more than job satisfaction. It’s loving your life and it’s loving others’ lives. Really, it’s everything. Of course, if you are happy in life you will be able to perform better at work and vice versa, and no matter how you feel at work pours over into your external...
Read moreby Jennifer Riggins Lately, I’ve been obsessed with listening to the National Public Radio (NPR), particularly the interviews of authors on topics I would never think of researching myself. A couple weeks ago, scientist Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, was talking about how us homo sapiens have surfaced to...
Read moreby Vasco Duarte Although a lot of people I know get inspiration from management courses and books, there’s one thing they often ask themselves. ‘What can I start with this Monday? And then do Tuesday?’ Personally I don’t believe in books or practices that change the world overnight. Or on a Monday afternoon, no matter...
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