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A colleague at a client told me, when they started with the organisation, that their manager said to them: “I’m...

11 Apr 2023

Work. How does that word make you feel? Motivated? Challenged? Excited? Stressed? Depressed? Angry? Happy? The world of work is...

07 Apr 2023

Last month I wrote a LinkedIn post suggesting that staff...

13 Mar 2023

You may have seen rather gleeful headlines recently reporting that Marie Kondo has relaxed her stance on tidying up after...

08 Mar 2023

It can feel as though these days everything is a project and everyone is a project manager. That represents a...

02 Mar 2023

Is your organisation one where people can move quickly and get new ideas out there, or is it stymied in...

27 Feb 2023

Let’s stop asking for degrees in recruitment. Santander recently announced that they would remove the requirement for a 2:1 degree...

13 Feb 2023

Most people are so busy going from meeting to meeting, with one meeting spilling over into the next. No time...

07 Feb 2023

I’m now back from my sabbatical and, while I was away, our people at Happy decided to make the four-day...

12 Jan 2023

The Happy Manifesto Podcast, based on the principles in the award-winning management book The Happy Manifesto, will be launching on...

10 Jan 2023

When I read Maverick in 1992, it transformed what was then Happy Computers. I went from being a micro-managing boss,...

12 Dec 2022

Liz Wiseman is the CEO of The Wiseman Group, a talent development and research organisation in Silicon Valley, California. Liz...

22 Nov 2022

The Happy Manifesto

"People work best when they feel good about themselves"

Henry Stewart

Our founder Henry Stewart published The Happy Manifesto back in 2013, and it outlines the 10 core principles that we believe create a happy workplace. It is the foundation of Happy’s award-winning culture as well as everything we do for our clients.

Since publication, The Happy Manifesto has helped thousands of leaders create happy workplaces based on trust and empowerment.

We offer all of Henry’s books as free downloads.