Stuff we’ve been thinking lately
by Louise Brace I listened to a fascinating episode on NPR’s TED Radio Hour a few months back, Why ants don’t need a leader. The interview with biologist Deborah Gordon fascinated me. Picture this: the world’s largest ant colony stretches over 3,700 miles and it has been completely constructed by ants who self-organize through the...
Read moreby Nikoletta Tatár The foundation of a great team is trust. Patrick Lencioni’s great book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, addresses this question in detail. Lack of trust is the biggest dysfunction. A team cannot mature without establishing it in the first place. But establishing trust is easier said than done. In certain teams, it...
Read moreby Yoris Linhares Teaching a new brand concept can be a much easier task than revisiting tried and tested subjects. People don’t have any preconceptions and are eager to assimilate a new idea. In many cases, when you teach a new concept, resistance is minimal. Sounds easy? Actually it’s not always as straightforward as the...
Read moreby Louise Brace Creativity and Innovation have always been at the heart of every successful organization. Yet until recently, the responsibility of innovating new ideas and products was left to the R&D and Creative Teams. Managing creativity was something of an enigma. How do you manage something so abstract as innovation? In recent years the role...
Read moreby Louise Brace TED talks have become a source of great inspiration in recent years. They give us an insight into so many of life’s great questions and conundrums: How great leaders inspire; why we do what we do; the science of happiness, and why looks aren’t everything. They introduce us to new technologies and...
Read moreby Jennifer Riggins Back in ’98, someone wrote: “The microprocessor is one of the greatest accomplishments of the twentieth century.” Since it enables our connected and computed world, I’m not going to be one to disagree. And the impact of Intel on our lives is no small fete by making the benefits of the microprocessor...
Read moreby Simone Mosena Every year, I like to attend training workshops and conferences. In addition to growing my experience and knowledge, it stimulates my creativity. When the conference is good, it also stimulates moments of inspiration. I usually return to work with lot of new ideas and insights. Last year, while at Dare Devils, I...
Read moreby Laurence McCahill A new business era beckons. There’s a new breed of entrepreneur putting purpose before profits and measuring success in the happiness of their employees and customers, not revenue. It’s time we made our businesses more human and in the process give them a better chance of survival. Before setting up The Happy...
Read moreby Louise Brace As some of the world’s top organizations put the importance of employee health and happiness first, the question of how to create a more stress-free workplace environment is a hot topic. At last year’s World Economic Forum, the practice of mindfulness was one of the most widely discussed topics on the agenda,...
Read moreby Louise Brace Our Happy Melly team created a team delegation board last year that gave each of us the authority to make decisions on most aspects of the day-to-day running of the Happy Melly One organization. Of course we can’t make decisions on everything: we can’t change the company name or purpose, we can’t...
Read moreby Jason Little I saw a notification popup in my twitter feed a couple of weeks ago: Naturally, I wanted to see what it was that I was supposed to say something about! So what do I think about that? Read on! Yesterday I chatted with someone at a large bank that employs ~30K people...
Read moreby Louise Brace Fact: In work, life and love, we fail. We would rather that failure wasn’t part of life’s complex strategy, but we do fail nevertheless, repeatedly. And some more spectacularly than others. The key is to accept that the hard work wasn’t in vain and have the courage and stamina to keep going and to...
Read moreby Vanessa Shaw When I deliver workshops the participants are always buzzing with ideas. My objective is to help them to start implementing the learning right away. A solution I’ve found helpful is to commit to micropractices. This is a concept I learned when I completed the Personal Leadership certification. A micropractice is a small...
Read moreEditor’s Note: This blog was written when Management 3.0’s parent company was called Happy Melly One and when we had launched an experimental project called Happy Melly, which focused on happiness at work. Today Happy Melly has been absorbed by Management 3.0, which is part of the Happy Melly Group. by Patrick Verdonk Once upon...
Read moreby Sergey Kotlov It’s Monday. Yay! That’s how people feel at the organizations that form part of our project Yay4Monday. They love their jobs, even on a Monday. Embarking on my European tour of tech companies in search of those that put the happiness and engagement of their employees first. I started to visualize the steps a company...
Read moreby João Reis As usual, three Scrum Masters and I were drinking a coffee and talking about our daily grind at Walmart.com, when a common problem emerged during our dialogue: How to improve our grooming meetings? In my opinion the grooming meeting is the most important factor in a Sprint. Do it well and your...
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 moreToday’s guest article comes from Britta Ullrich, a team leader for the XING User Insight Team in Hamburg. Britta had used the Management 3.0 Personal Maps exercise during two of her team workshops. On preparation of her last workshop she decided to mix up the exercise; moving the focus onto individual and collective successes of...
Read moreby Louise Brace “How can we engage upper management during change management?” In this article we’re going to delve into a question that we explored a little while ago during one of our Happy Melly Coffee sessions, you can see the context of the discussion below. How can we engage not only employees, but also upper...
Read moreby Jennifer Riggins As we all work at least in the periphery of the agile world, we sometimes realize that not everyone’s agile. Not everyone’s got it figured out. Not everyone wants to be a coach or start their own business. Sure, most people want to be happy at work, but that doesn’t mean they...
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