Stuff we’ve been thinking lately
by Louise Brace In a TED Talk, educationalist and author Sir Ken Robinson spoke of the extraordinary capacities that children have for innovation. Growing up we are naturally creative, inquisitive and with exceptional talent, which Sir Ken believes is squandered during our education. By the time we reach adulthood, our creativity has been literally ‘educated out of...
Read moreby Louise Brace So I’ve been working on this remote working team for nine months now and our team is pretty tight. Some of us are more online and virtually engaged than others, but we all get together at least once a week, normally twice and that includes our weekly Kitten Talk, where we drop...
Read moreby Jurgen Appelo Editor’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. No matter...
Read moreby Lisette Sutherland Last week, the Management 3.0 Team had a team retrospective… remotely, of course. We recently changed the way we organize ourselves–from a team of nine that met regularly to splitting into four different crews that met at different times. We did this because we need to scale, and even though we’re a...
Read moreby Nina Cheng The Great Recession. For those who were working or looking for work during those years, you’ll remember what a dark, trying time it was. Thousands of people were getting laid off on every rung of the ladder, For Rent signs hung on rows of empty storefronts, newspapers seemed to announce an infinite...
Read moreby Jennifer Riggins Does “Every little bit counts” really count? Or is the devil in the details? When the world is just becoming frightening with hatred, can small acts of kindness really improve our lives? Improve the world? We all do small acts of kindness every day, because we hope they make others happy which...
Read moreby Louise Brace We definitely don’t have a typical hiring process at Just Digital in Brazil. You could say we use a fairly unique recruitment process to bring on board new collaborators. We don’t use traditional methods, such as using a third party hiring company or recruitment manager. When we believe there is a need...
Read moreby Louise Brace Back in March I read an article in Forbes about the Tech Job Market. It quoted that there were over 600,000 Tech jobs advertised in the US market. In fact for every one person in the tech industry, there were five vacancies advertised. And the same boom is happening in Europe, with...
Read moreby Louise Brace Editor’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. What does...
Read moreAll startups need to think about the team and management early on. They need to start early because they set the culture. As Twitter’s co-founder says in this HBR article: A culture is going to form whether you like it or not, and if you pay attention to it, you can craft something that makes...
Read moreby Jennifer Riggins We could also call this piece: “How to almost guarantee job satisfaction and happy employees.” A few weeks ago, I was listening to National Public Radio as usual and I came across an interview with the startup GapJumpers, which is kind of like The Voice for recruitment. Essentially, for each job offer, you...
Read moreby Jurgen Appelo When you’re a team of just a few people, discussing roles, authorization and delegation is easy. You just show up at a meeting, or on a Slack channel, and ask each other a question: “Can someone take over email enquiries?”“Is it OK if I spend some money on Facebook ads?”“What is the password...
Read moreby Lisette Sutherland Each team has a unique way of communicating. And each team has a particular combination of personality types. Just like an orchestra tunes up before a performance, or an athlete warms up before a practice, tuning a virtual team helps get everyone on the same page. In many of my interviews with...
Read moreThere’s no doubt that an organization, whether a bootstrapped startup or a Fortune 100, is filled with complexity. Your team is a complex, adaptive, and evolving system. Managing a team is not a linear, bounded, or overtly analytical activity. It takes patience, creativity and constant insight into the complexity thinking of your group. Inspired by Switch: How to...
Read moreby Louise Brace Distractions, distractions, distractions. In the 21st century office, we are surrounded by them. Smart phone ringing, email pinging, tweets calling for our attention. For most of us, it’s near impossible to stay focused; we are in what is known as ‘continuous partial attention’. Our mind is rarely focused on one task, or...
Read moreby Louise Brace Last weekend our team and Management 3.0 Facilitators met in Budapest for a meeting of minds. The Management 3.0 Gathering is an annual meetup, where facilitators get to discuss workshop content and materials, and how to take the concept and training forward with new initiatives, exercises and marketing methods. The meeting was...
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 George Dickson Want to be happier at work and help your team find greater joy in the workplace? The journey to loving your work doesn’t magically happen, but if you make an effort to get there, you will. Here are three steps you can take right now that will get you started. Step 1 —...
Read moreby Louise Brace Editor’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. HOur company...
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