What Are the Benefits of Employees Being in Control?
Last month I wrote a
LinkedIn post
suggesting that staff should decide the CEO’s salary, based on my own experience of doing just that.
So far it has received 344,000 views and 505 comments. And it seems to have been controversial.
How Happy Makes Space for Women in Leadership
You may have seen rather gleeful headlines recently reporting that Marie Kondo has relaxed her stance on tidying up after the arrival of her third child. These days she’s focusing less on the mess and more on the joy. We love this quote from her: “My home is messy, but the way I am spending my time is the right way for me at this time at this stage of my life.”
At Happy we were inspired by her idea of things sparking joy, so much so that our strapline is ‘Creating Joy at Work’. It’s something we practise, and we measure regularly, aiming for all of our staff to spend a high proportion of their time at work doing things that bring them joy.
How to Make Sure Your Next Project is a Success
It can feel as though these days everything is a project and everyone is a project manager. That represents a significant shift in organisational thinking from only a few years ago.
And everyone seems to have heard horror stories about bad experiences with projects (and project managers).
But what makes something a project, rather than just a complex piece of work?
And what can we do to give ourselves a better chance of success?
