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The Cult of Overwork is alive and well. Sigh!

The Chief Happiness Officer -- European workers dont work enough hours compared to Americans. That is the message in this article written by a London-based venture capitalist. From the article: As anyone who’s ever been there or visited will attest, in Silicon Valley everyone is working *all of the time*. And while this might seem unhealthy, not scalable, obsessive, manic or simply ridiculous, from an ecoystem perspective it’s ...     11-24
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The Happiness Hat will hurt you until you smile

The Chief Happiness Officer -- Smile, dammit:This is not meant to be taken seriouslythis is art. Or social commentary. Or both. The Happiness Hat was created by Lauren MacCarthy, who calls it: A wearable conditioning device that detects if youre smiling and provides pain feedback if youre not. Frowning creates intense pain but a full smile leaves you pain free! The first in a series of Tools for Improved Social Inter-Acting. To...     11-02
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A question for ya

The Chief Happiness Officer -- I have a simple question for you:Whats the one thing you wish your manager understood about you, which still hasnt sunk in with him/her? I ask because Im giving a ton of presentations to groups of managers about happiness at work these days and Id like to give them an even better idea of where managers and employees often dont connect or misunderstand each other. So what do you think? What doesnt ...     10-30
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Hooray, it’s Monday!

The Chief Happiness Officer -- Below theres a message for all my Danish readers. For everyone else: I bet youre sorry NOW, that you werent born Danish, huh :o) Were launching a new web site (in Danish) for everyone whos lost their happiness at work and would like it back. Har du mistet arbejdsglæden? Og vil du gerne have den igen?Er du en af de mange danskere, der engang har været glad for sit arbejde, men lige nu har glemt hvo...     10-27
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Happiness at work at Perrigo

The Chief Happiness Officer -- Health care company Perrigo is looking for more employees and this is how they try to attract them:Where many companies present themselves seriously and factually, Perrigo present themselves as a fun, lively, social place. I dont know about youbut it kinda makes me want to work there :o) Here are the top three reasons why Perrigos casting call is a great way to attract great people. 1: It speaks t...     10-15
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I’m in Vegas getting married

The Chief Happiness Officer -- Todays big news has nothing to do with happiness at work and everything to do with happiness in life: My wonderful girlfriend Patricia and I are in Vegasto get married. Here are some pictures from when I proposed. Yes, Im wearing an Elvis costumeit was a Vegas party :o) The wedding is October 1st. 2009in Las Vegas. Woooo-hoooooooooooooooo :o) Normal blogging will resume in mid-October when Im back...     09-26
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Much Better Meetings – for Danes

The Chief Happiness Officer -- We are extremely proud to be able to announce our newest product, which is called Much Better Meetings. Basically, meetings often suck and make people unhappy at work. I talked to a friend today who says he has a doctors note to the effect that any meeting longer than 10 minutes gives him a nosebleed. Much Better Meetings is a complete system, ready to install in any meeting room, which helps you ...     09-18
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Friday Spoing

The Chief Happiness Officer -- This is a real video of real cops on the streets of Copenhagen (close to where I live, actually) stopping people on bikes to well, watch it for yourself:     09-12
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Happiness at work at Atlassian

The Chief Happiness Officer -- This is how Australian sotware company Atlassian present their values on their web sites about page:Open company, no bullshit Atlassian embraces transparency wherever at all practical, and sometimes where impractical. All information, both internal and external, is public by default. We are not afraid of being honest with ourselves, our staff and our customers.Build with heart and balance Everyday...     09-08
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Motivation – you’re doing it wrong

The Chief Happiness Officer -- Heres (yet another) great TED presentationthis one is by Dan Pink and is about the mismatch between what science knows and what businesses do to motivate people.Dans point is that rewarding performance mostly doesnt work and often leads to worse performance. For tasks that are simple and straight-forward and require no creativity or cognitive skills, extrinsic motivation works fine and promising p...     09-03
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My piece for BusinessWeek.com is live. Join the debate on performance reviews!

The Chief Happiness Officer -- My mini-piece for BusinessWeek.com on why performance reviews are a waste of time just went live along with a counter-piece arguing for them by Bob Rogers. I first blogged about this back in 2008 listing the top 10 reasons why formal annual performance reviews are actively damaging to motivation and happiness at work, including:Everyone hates them They become an excuse for not talking the rest of ...     09-03
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Pop and happiness at work

The Chief Happiness Officer -- Youve gotta watch this video:Watch his eyes when he talks. Thats happiness at work right there. Are you as passionate about your job? Do you know as much about your products/field? Do you care as deeply about making your customers happy and helping them make good choices? Are you as free to do things your way, rather than do what everyone else does? If you arekudos! I bet youre happy at work. If n...     09-02
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Happiness at work at Southwest Airlines

The Chief Happiness Officer -- Heres some serious happiness at work for ya:This is just awesome. Its silly, playful, fun, loud AND it involves the passengers, making them part of the experience. One of the many things I love about Southwest Airlines is that these kinds of people are the heroes of the organization. Theyre the ones who are celebrated and held up as shining examples. If you can help someone out or brighten someone...     08-25
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When it rains the price of umbrellas goes…

The Chief Happiness Officer -- Complete this sentence: When it rains, the price of umbrellas goes __. If you guessed up youd be right in most places. But at IKEA stores, youd be wrong. Heres how they price their umbrellas: IKEA umbrellas Sunny Day: $ 10 Rainy Day: $ 3 Yes, on rainy days, umbrellas are cheaper :o) What a nice way to make customers happy. This is no coincidencehappiness matters at IKEA. Their founder, Ingvar Kamp...     08-18
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Friday SPOING!

The Chief Happiness Officer -- Where can I go and try this? Looks like fun!Have a happy weekend :o)     08-15
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A disgusting, dangerous and wrong business practice

The Chief Happiness Officer -- I recently got an email from a reader of this blog asking if Id ever heard of Fernando Flores. I hadntbut he supplied a link to this article in Fast Company, which chilled my blood when I read it. The article opens with this: Fernando Flores was Chiles minister of financeand, later, a political prisoner. Now he teaches companies how to use assessments and commitments to transform the way they do b...     08-14
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Happiness at work

The Chief Happiness Officer -- Are butchers happy at work? Sure thing, according to an Australian survey: A Galaxy poll of consumers on the perceived happiness of workers found that butchers were the most friendly and contented workers in Australia, and Ricky Beaves agrees. Mr Beaves became a butcher 35 years ago and is happy every day. “At the time I went into it simply because it was a job,” he said. “I’m lucky that I’ve alwa...     08-12
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See me on Danish news

The Chief Happiness Officer -- I was on Danish news TV (TV Avisen) Monday night talking about how you can stay happy at work after the summer vacation is over. You can see the clip hereall two minutes of it :o) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/thechiefhappinessofficer/~5/0mIg5CmHojI/RRqfv     08-06
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Joyous communication

The Chief Happiness Officer -- Heres three minutes of happiness for ya:World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo. Fun though this clip is, there are also some deep lessons here about communication, fun, play and mutual expectations. Why shouldnt corporate communication be as lively, fun, playful and effective?     08-04
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Leadership is…

The Chief Happiness Officer -- A couple of weeks ago I was writing my regular op-ed piece on leadership for a major Danish newspaper and I was plumb out if ideas. Its funny how your creativity can get stuck when youre looking at an empty word document and a looming deadline :o) So I asked for ideas in my twitter feed (follow me on twitter) and got tons of input, of which the email I got from Joe D. Calhoun, Director of Business...     07-22
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