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Are you engaged or are you happy? by Alexander Kjerulf (The Chief Happiness Officer) Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness I was recently invited to talk with employee engagement expert David Zinger about happiness at work and how it relates to engagement. We had a great talk and you can h ... Read on »

Working time through the ages by Alexander Kjerulf (The Chief Happiness Officer) Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness Wikipedia delivers again, this time with a great overview of working time – from the stone age to today. A few nuggets from the article: …early hunter-g ... Read on »

Ed Diener’s FAQ on happiness is all kinds of awesome by Alexander Kjerulf (The Chief Happiness Officer) Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness Often you Google one thing and end up with something else and that’s how i discovered that Ed Diener (one of the world’s leading researchers in positive psychology) has an ... Read on »

The brain likes surprises by Alexander Kjerulf (The Chief Happiness Officer) Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness According to research , we become a happier when good things happen to us (duh!) but the effect is even bigger when good things happen to us unexpectedly: Emory Uni ... Read on »

Weekend Woohoo by Alexander Kjerulf (The Chief Happiness Officer) Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness I just found this video of a Disney World cast member (which is what they call employees) rocking out during a parade That’s happiness at work right there :o ... Read on »

Vroooooom by Alexander Kjerulf (The Chief Happiness Officer) Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness One problem with electric scooters is that they’re just too silent – other people have no idea you’re coming. Fortunately, you can fix that problem, advertise your busines ... Read on »

Weekend Woohoo by Alexander Kjerulf (The Chief Happiness Officer) Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness In honor of Tom Lehrer’s 84th birthday this week (I’m a huge fan) and the slooooow arrival of spring here in Copenhagen, this week’s Woohoo is a beautiful ode to a fun hob ... Read on »

Woohoo: We made the WorldBlu List of the world’s most democratic companies again by Alexander Kjerulf (The Chief Happiness Officer) Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness WorldBlu , an American company dedicated to promoting democracy in the workplace, have just released their 2012 list of the world’s most democratic workplaces – and we’r ... Read on »

Happiness at work in Curacao by Alexander Kjerulf (The Chief Happiness Officer) Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness We’re now back after our trip to Curacao in the Caribbean where we did several gigs about happiness at work. First we did a keynote and full-day workshop at a b ... Read on »

How Kim found the courage to quit by Alexander Kjerulf (The Chief Happiness Officer) Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness I got an email from Kim, who finally decided to quit her job: I was pushed to the limit at work today with the final act occurring when I was berated by my ... Read on »

More and happier retail staff = more sales by Alexander Kjerulf (The Chief Happiness Officer) Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness An excellent article by James Surowiecki in The Newyorker shows that retail stores that have more and happier staff are more profitable. In fact, a study found that: ... Read on »

Why your boss thinks criticism is more effective than praise… and is wrong! by Alexander Kjerulf (The Chief Happiness Officer) Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness I just discovered a great article by Linda Hill & Kent Lineback on why criticism seems more effective than praise in the workplace… but isn’t . From the article: ... Read on »

Rowan Manahan: How PowerPoint improves EVERY story by Alexander Kjerulf (The Chief Happiness Officer) Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness Here’s Rowan Manahan, my favorite Irishman and one of the funniest people I know, explaining how PowerPoint can be used to enhance any kind of story – even a fairy tale. T ... Read on »

Bad advice from Mark Cuban: “Ignore your passion” by Alexander Kjerulf (The Chief Happiness Officer) Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness Mark Cuban just wrote a blog post, advising people to forget their passions and just invest more hours into whatever they doo: I hear it all the time from people. “ ... Read on »

Bring back the 40-hour work week by Alexander Kjerulf (The Chief Happiness Officer) Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness This article has the best summary I have ever seen of all the reasons why companies are more productive when they stick to a 40-hour week. From the article: ... Read on »

I’m speaking in Curacao in April by Alexander Kjerulf (The Chief Happiness Officer) Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness You may remember that I spoke in The Dominican Republic last October (where they forced me to wear a suit for the first time in years) and in April I’m going back to ... Read on »

Wells Fargo: “We believe shareholders come last.” by Alexander Kjerulf (The Chief Happiness Officer) Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness Someone sent me a link to this Forbes article about The Gospel According to Wells Fargo There’s some good stuff in it, but my favorite has to be this: We believ ... Read on »

HCL Technologies puts employees first by Alexander Kjerulf (The Chief Happiness Officer) Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness This is not only one of the best recruitment videos I’ve ever seen it’s a stirring tribute to employees everywhere It’s from Indian IT company HCL Technologi ... Read on »

Book review: Inside Apple by Adam Lashinsky by Alexander Kjerulf (The Chief Happiness Officer) Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness I just finished reading Inside Apple by Adam Lashinsky and I was struck by two observations 1: Apple gets a lot of things exactly right and some other things exactly wrong ... Read on »

When your boss saves your job by Alexander Kjerulf (The Chief Happiness Officer) Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness Bob Sutton, author of the excellent book Good Boss Bad Boss tells this story from the very early days at Pixar : The company was under financial pressure and much of ... Read on »

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