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330 — The Happy Manifesto: Revisited
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37 minutes
Released:
Feb 7, 2023
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Ten years ago, Henry Stewart wrote The Happy Manifesto, outlining 10 principles for happier workplaces. Among them: Make your people feel good; Be open and transparent; Celebrate mistakes. This week on The Mind Tools L&D Podcast, Henry joins Gemma and Ross G the relevance of these principles in 2023. Spoiler: They’re even more important. We discuss: how the workplace has evolved the emergence of ‘self-managing organisations’ the factors that stop leaders creating a happy workplace. During the discussion, Henry recommended the following books: Turn the Ship Around! by David Marquet Reinventing Organizations by Frederic Laloux Maverick by Ricardo Semler No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer He also mentioned the paper: Edmans, A. (2011). Does the stock market fully value intangibles? Employee satisfaction and equity prices. Journal of Financial economics, 101(3), 621-640. actions you can take when budgets are tight how the lessons of 2008 can be applied today. In ‘What I Learned This Week’, Ross discussed the use of cannabis to unlock creativity at work (or not, as it turned out): economist.com/business/2023/01/12/how-to-unlock-creativity-in-the-workplace The original paper is at: Heng, Y. T., Barnes, C. M., & Yam, K. C. (2022). Cannabis use does not increase actual creativity but biases evaluations of creativity. Journal of Applied Psychology. Henry discussed neurodiversity, sparking Ross to recommend this Learning Guild article from Judy Katz: learningguild.com/articles/designing-for-autism-adhd-and-more-representing-neurodivergence/?rd=1 For more from Henry, see https://www.happy.co.uk. Or you can contact him at: henry@happy.co.uk For more from us, including access to our back catalogue of podcasts, visit mindtoolsbusiness.com. There, you'll also find details of our award-winning performance support toolkit, our off-the-shelf e-learning, and our custom work. Connect with our speakers If you'd like to share your thoughts on this episode, connect with our speakers on Twitter: Gemma Towersey - @GemmaTowersey Ross Garner - @RossGarnerMT Henry Stewart - @HappyHenry
Released:
Feb 7, 2023
Format:
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