Friday links - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog

Friday links - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog Heres an excellent interview with Richard Feynman, the Nobel Prize-winning, safe-cracking, bongo-playing physicist. The introduction alone is great: Feynman explains how a scientific world view doesnt detract from, but adds to, the beauty of a flower. I hate Cilantro (fresh coriander) too. Finally a worthwhile, global cause I can get behind. The guy who always wears a name tag and the guy whos trading a red paperclip for a house are both still at it. Thats life art life-art. Thanks for visiting my blog. If you're new here, you should check out this list of my 10 most popular articles. And if you want more great tips and ideas you should check out our newsletter about happiness at work. It's great and it's free :-)Share this:LinkedInFacebookTwitterRedditPinterest Related Friday links - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog Steve Farber on The Greatness Paradox. There is no law of physics, no universal rulethat I know of, anywaythat says your succeeding requires my failing, your fulfillment requires my emptiness, your happiness, my grief. Steve is looking for stories on how you make others great. Go give him one. Fred Gratzon on Weeds and Life?s Purpose. The problem is that most folks, besides not believing they are special (a tragic oversight, by the way), are so dulled out or fatigued that their innate intelligence, creativity, and passion are encrusted with inertia and thereby rendered sluggish. How not to apply for a job in banking. Funniest thing on the net this week. You cant make this stuff up, but Aleksey Vayner has. You MUST watch the video! Our employees tatoos. The missing link corporate website has a page showing its employees tattoos? Btw: It would be kinda funny if this company has one guy whos just different and refuses to fit in because he doesnt have a single tattoo or piercing anywhere on his body :o) And have an amazingly great weekend! Thanks for visiting my blog. If you're new here, you should check out this list of my 10 most popular articles. And if you want more great tips and ideas you should check out our newsletter about happiness at work. It's great and it's free :-)Share this:LinkedInFacebookTwitterRedditPinterest Related Friday links - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog Russian employers are using stressovoye, stressful interviews, to find the best candidates: Throwing a glass of water in someones face is said to be especially revealing: the interviewee is considered to have strength of character and leadership qualities if they react aggressively. I think this mostly reveals something about the company and the interviewer Fred Gratzon explains how he lights his iner fire and sets goals: I come up with my goals in a most lazy and relaxed manner. In fact, relaxation is THE essential ingredient for this process to be successful. No sweat, no effort, no strain, no pain, no pressure, no aggravation, no commute, no bosses, no deadlines, no distractions, no work; just relaxing with a quiet desire to have a new goal. Then I play with my imagination throughout the day, every day. Another post also wants IT people to be lazy: For example, you want an environment where sysadmins kick back and read IT magazines occasionally, because their run-of-the-mill administrative tasks (adding users, managing disk space, etc.) are all scripted and/or automated. Bob Sutton writes about Lovaglias law and choosing CEOs: Rakesh found that when he asked corporate directors if CEOs are worth all that money, they reacted with anger and surprise, as if he had raised a taboo subject. He found that they had ?virtually religious??? convictions on the subject, which led them to dismiss any evidence showing that CEO quality is not a primary and powerful cause of company performance. Thanks for visiting my blog. If you're new here, you should check out this list of my 10 most popular articles. And if you want more great tips and ideas you should check out our newsletter about happiness at work. It's great and it's free :-)Share this:LinkedInFacebookTwitterRedditPinterest Related Friday links - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog Dan Gilbert talks about happiness at the TED conference A great talk about the nature of happiness and why were totally wrong about what makes us happy or unhappy. Also very funny! (via Andrew Ferrier) Give 100% at work I always do :o) (via Gelle) The 37signals guys on happiness Happiness has a cascading effect. Happy programmers do the right thing. They write simple, readable code. They take clean, expressive, readable, elegant approaches. They have fun. (thanks Antoine Musso) Check out Superviva A community for people who want to improve life. Heres Superviva on work. VideoKarma Happy videos from around the net. Thanks for visiting my blog. If you're new here, you should check out this list of my 10 most popular articles. And if you want more great tips and ideas you should check out our newsletter about happiness at work. It's great and it's free :-)Share this:LinkedInFacebookTwitterRedditPinterest Related Friday links - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog Why happiness is overrated. It can only be a matter of time before companies appoint happiness action officers whose job it will be to patrol workstations with a clipboard: Jenkins cheer up or its a remedial, wellbeing residential workshop for you. Smith happy enough! (via). Heh! Microsoft made two training videos with renowned business consultant David Brent (played of course by Ricky Gervais of The Office). Hilarious! Video 1 Video 2. (Via Mathias Vestergaard). This is actually a great and entertaining way to get the message remembered I might even be able to recite the Microsoft values now :o) But the funniest fake corporate videos are still the Reebok commercials featuring Terry Tate. 10 things you could do this friday afternoon. I like number 8-10. Oh, the dangers of being self-employed. Thanks for visiting my blog. If you're new here, you should check out this list of my 10 most popular articles. And if you want more great tips and ideas you should check out our newsletter about happiness at work. It's great and it's free :-)Share this:LinkedInFacebookTwitterRedditPinterest Related Friday links - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog Here are a few great recent links about happiness at work. And a silly one. I almost destroyed a life today. I wasn?t raised to be such an arrogant, uncompassionate son of a bitch but I somehow managed to get there. Confesstions of a (reformed) bad boss. ?When I was in my 30s, and an up-and-coming executive, I took pride in the fact that I would travel to New York on a flight at seven, [fly] back at 11 and be back in the office at seven. The fact that someone had children to take to school, I just thought: Well, get organized, man!??? Motivation = celebration + appreciation. If you can find a way to appreciate yourself for what you?ve already accomplished, and to celebrate your previous successes, you will find you are magically motivated to accomplish more. Bad english from around the world. Including Order your summers suit. Because is big rush we will execute customers in strict rotation from a Rhodes tailor and Drop your trousers here for best results from a Bangkok dry cleaners. Enjoy, and have a grrrrreat weekend :o) Thanks for visiting my blog. If you're new here, you should check out this list of my 10 most popular articles. And if you want more great tips and ideas you should check out our newsletter about happiness at work. It's great and it's free :-)Share this:LinkedInFacebookTwitterRedditPinterest Related Friday Links - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog A couple of good articles about Richard Branson. I dont think of work as work and play as play. Its all living. Thats definitely a top executive to learn from. The bad news: We bring bad moods at work home. The good news: Theyre gone by morning. Im not so sure. I think it depends very much on how bad the mood is. Half of the good people in your company may be leaving. A recent workplace survey of 16,237 workers found that nearly half the people regarded as stellar performers were actively trying to leave their current employers. Thanks for visiting my blog. If you're new here, you should check out this list of my 10 most popular articles. And if you want more great tips and ideas you should check out our newsletter about happiness at work. It's great and it's free :-)Share this:LinkedInFacebookTwitterRedditPinterest Related Friday Links - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog The Slow Leadership Blog has The Truth about Communication. Have you ever asked yourself why so many communications are ?top down???? The answer is simple: because they are all about control. Thats a critical insight. I agree! Negative people are bad four your brain a classic from Kathy Sierra. The idea seems to be that happy people implies those who are oblivious to the realities of life, in a fantasy of their own creation, and without the ability to think critically. The science, however, suggests just the opposite. Where did we ever get the idea, that negative people are somehow more realistic and smarter than positive people? In my opinion, its just way too easy to be negative and you can always criticize and shoot ideas down. Being positive and supportive demands more from a person. And speaking of negative people, the world sucks, and the Helsinki Complaints Choir will tell you exactly how. Thanks for visiting my blog. If you're new here, you should check out this list of my 10 most popular articles. And if you want more great tips and ideas you should check out our newsletter about happiness at work. It's great and it's free :-)Share this:LinkedInFacebookTwitterRedditPinterest Related Friday links - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog Coolest. Office. Ever. I thought Id found 10 pretty cool offices, but Inventionland is wild and weird and I love it. Video here. (Thanks Kareem Mayan and Michael Rizzo). Aaron Swartz gets his first taste of corporate life after reddit.com was bought by Wired. Gray walls, gray desks, gray noise. The first day I showed up here, I simply couldnt take it. By lunch time I had literally locked myself in a bathroom stall and started crying. I cant imagine staying sane with someone buzzing in my ear all day, let alone getting any actual work done. Best commentary on this: Working at reddit: Wired. Working at Wired: Tired! The executive coloring book. MAN thats funny. And depressing :o) Thanks for visiting my blog. If you're new here, you should check out this list of my 10 most popular articles. And if you want more great tips and ideas you should check out our newsletter about happiness at work. It's great and it's free :-)Share this:LinkedInFacebookTwitterRedditPinterest Related