Editor’s Note: A few years ago Management 3.0 launched the Happy Melly experiment. It was the brainchild of Jurgen Appelo, founder of Management 3.0 and the idea was to practically implement the tools and philosophies of the company, using a real team to do so. The company was focused on helping people be happier at…
by Alexander Weinhard Working Out Loud starts with making your work visible in such a way that it might help others. When you do that — when you work in a more open, connected way — you can build a purposeful network that makes you more effective and provides access to more opportunities. John Stepper: The…
by Sergey Kotlov To begin with, you won’t find any mind-blowing discoveries here. All the lessons I’m going to share are well known and repeated multiple times in hundreds of articles and books. I knew them myself before. But I didn’t live them through. I could easily increase the number of lessons to ten, 15…
Editor’s Note: A few years ago Management 3.0 launched the Happy Melly experiment. It was the brainchild of Jurgen Appelo, founder of Management 3.0 and the idea was to practically implement the tools and philosophies of the company, using a real team to do so. The company was focused on helping people be happier at…
by Jennifer Riggins One of the companies I worked for would offer us “surprise” half days on the days before Thanksgiving and Christmas. But once it happened one year, it was always assumed and we’d feel cheated if we didn’t get those days. Plus people who had already planned to take those days as vacation days…
by Sergey Kotlov Another name for this article could be “How to delight your clients by making them suffer first”. It’s a story about a decision that wasted a lot of time for many and didn’t bring any value because it was based on distrust. If you ever met me in person, you would know…
by Sam, Management 3.0 Team One of the first things I do with my coaching clients is that I get them to define their values. It’s something that both baffles and assures me when they tell me that they’ve never even thought about it before. It baffles me because we need our values to help…
by Jennifer Riggins As I already mentioned, I am part of a brilliant group of supportive and clever people, each who bring different skills to the table. Yesterday, I shared Steve Tallantyre’s explanation of how to leverage the science behind motivation. Today, I offer you Molly Sears-Piccavey‘s own personal tricks to gain and hold onto that…
Happy Melly Founder, Jurgen Appelo speaks with John Kotter, Professor of Leadership at the Harvard Business School, a New York Times best-selling author, and founder of Kotter International about the future of change management.
by Jurgen Appelo I am slowly delegating the production of our Management 3.0 workshop materials, which is not easy for me. I am quite territorial in my attitude toward our creative products, and the workshop modules have always been my territory. I am a dictator in that area. It is the main reason why people…
by Jennifer Riggins Editor’s Note: At the time of publication the parent company for Management 3.0 was called Happy Melly One. It’s now called Happy Melly Group. This article specifically speaks to an experiment we ran called Happy Melly. Happy Melly today has been absorbed by Management 3.0 as the ‘happiness arm’ of the company….
by Jason Little This is the story of Lean Change Management’s Jason Little, and how he became an accidental entrepreneur. It’s been four years since is first book was published, two since he started his lean change agent workshop program, and five since he decided to toss the over-used buzzword ‘agile’ into the toilet for a…
by Sam, Management 3.0 Team A person’s success in life is measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations they’re willing to have. Rarely have I come across a quote that resonated as strongly as this one by Tim Ferris in the 4-Hour Work Week. It struck such a chord that I’ve modeled my business on…
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. by Jennifer Riggins Jurgen Appelo…
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…
by 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…
by 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…
by 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…
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. by Patrick Verdonk Once upon…
by 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…
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