by Patrick Verdonk We need happier workplaces and we need emotionally intelligent leaders to help foster an environment where everyone feels motivated and engaged. It’s been said that 90 percent of leadership success today is attributed to EQ — your emotional quotient — over IQ. And that’s because it’s our ability and responsibility as people…
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by G. John Cole Taking a break should not be about switching your mind off, but rather about changing gears. Your soul is a complex thing: it thrives from being fed as much as from being rested – that’s what a good night’s sleep (and the occasional power nap) are for! Apply the same mindful…
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by Hélène Schmit A lot of us here have decided or are thinking about leaving the corporate world behind to build a work life on their own terms. A life where meaning, fulfillment, balance, flexibility, trust are the keywords. A life where you can be yourself in your work and are celebrated for that. Because…
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by Jennifer Riggins To help give us a bit of inspiration and hopefully a lot of good tips, today we offer you five TED Talks on the future of management. Dan Pink: The puzzle of motivation OK this is a bit boring or at least predictable, having Dan Pink on a management tips list. Yes,…
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by Yoris Linhares “The people here are paid to work, not to learn.” Maybe you don’t hear it at your work (lucky you) but that is something easy to hear inside some organisations where there is a mindset of dividing thinking people (managers) from executing people (workers). However, in twenty-first century market dynamics, there is…
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by Dan Woodward How can we turn the lessons learned from tyranny of the classroom into an adult learning experience? Let’s look at Mindful Learning. I was a bit of a swot [British for smartypants] at school, but for me understanding the detail of subjects was often quite hard work. I got the concepts easily, but…
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Why are people passing up jobs at Facebook and Google to work for Mobile Jazz? Co-founder of the small tech startup, Stefan Klumpp, explains why focusing on happiness as a journey is the key to creating success.
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by Jennifer Riggins At Management 3.0, we’ve already shared how we’ve identified and developed our team’s three core values: Dare to be bold. Always be kind. Make it creative. You could argue that there are certain core values that all companies share or at least should share. But businesses are made of people and people are…
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by Jennifer Riggins We are kicking off 2017 with focusing on the success of your small business. Because, really, if you aren’t successful, you won’t be happy at work for long now, will ya? Plus pesky things like paying employees and providers are essential for meeting the bare minimum to then be able to look…
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by Jennifer Riggins Wearing one of my many hats, I attend and speak at a lot of API (application programming interface) conferences. This aspect of the tech industry has a wonderful community — perhaps because it is just the tech that’s bringing people, services and especially other tech together. But these talks while always informative…
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by Josh Briggs There are many companies that still use fear as the primary driver for employee performance. Morale at these places is low, stress is high, and just about every employee has the LinkedIn Jobs Page opened on a ready-to-minimize window. I have worked at a few of these organizations. The main thing I…
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by Mila Sanchez I’ve worked my fair share of jobs and I’ve felt differently about each one. Some I liked, some I tolerated, and some work I downright hated. One thing that’s been universal though is that I’ve never felt fully satisfied. It’s not that I didn’t like the work, it just never felt like…
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by Lisette Sutherland Technology is making the traditional 9-to-5 grind less necessary. Mobile devices, centralized data, and all kinds of apps and software are helping us stay connected wherever we are. So naturally, this creates new possibilities for increased work–life freedom, as more and more of us can work remotely. In the past, when we…
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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…
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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…
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by 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…
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by 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…
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by Louise Brace What’s it all about, this life? Psychologists believe that you are what you think and what you do. So the more you repeat something, the more you become that something. An interesting article titled The 3 R’s of Habit Change by Behavioural Psychologist James Clear suggests: Your life today is essentially the sum…
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by Jurgen Appelo We practice what we preach. And so it is with the merit money idea (a peer-to-peer bonus system) that we borrowed from Management 3.0 and that we have implemented with Bonus.ly. Yesterday, we had a brief retrospective about the practice. We have been using it for 9 months now. This is what…
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by 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…
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