Happiness At Work

Why are people passing up jobs at Facebook and Google to work for Mobile Jazz? Co-founder of the small tech startup, Stefan Klumpp, explains why focusing on happiness as a journey is the key to creating success. For more happiness, visit www.happymelly.com.  

Carlos Saba, co-founder of The Happy Startup School, explains what it takes to balance business and profits when starting a business and how to foster relationships and create connections between companies and the people they serve. For more happiness, visit www.happymelly.com.  

For this month's Happy Melly Challenge, we're focusing on more of Jurgen's 12 Steps to Happiness and delving into the importance of being healthy at work. Find out why Typeform's Gabriela Cantu says that changing plants for walls and swapping the receptionist for a 'barceptionist' have made the greatest difference in their office. For more, visit www.happymelly.com.

Why is creativity the largest untapped resource in business? Founder of We Are Unstuck, Sarah King explains how design thinking not only fosters creativity, but helps fuel human connection, which in turn makes us happier. For more information, www.happymelly.com.  

What happens when two great minds come together to discuss the future of management? Part I of 'exchanges' features Happy Melly's own Jurgen Appelo speaking with fellow management guru, LeadWise's Ricardo Semler. For more, visit www.happymelly.com.

How does traveling the continent, speaking with 17 countries and conducting countless experiments, shape your startup? Sergey Kotlov from Workshop Butler explains why giving up is never an option. For more, visit www.happymelly.com.  

Find out why leaders need to get to know their teams and how a little bit of self-reflection can go along way in shifting the office narrative. Shawn Murphy delves into what he does to create an atmosphere where the focus is on the people. For more information, visit www.happymelly.com.  

Why are companies stuck in the 'old bottle' and what does it take to get out of that bottle? Founder and CEO of the Be Human Project, Eliot Frick, says we need to start by 'forgetting ourselves'. For more information, visit www.happymelly.com.

The key to being vulnerable is to start with ourselves. In this month's Happy Melly challenge, Josh Briggs delves into what trust within colleagues and teams looks like and explains why it's often hard to let your vulnerable side shine through. For more, visit www.happymelly.com.  

An expert in positive psychology and the science of wellbeing, Vanessa King talks about the recent revolution in psychological research, one that focuses on enabling people to live flourishing lives. She also delves into her recent book, Ten Keys to Happier Living and explains what it takes to 'stop disturbing' ourselves. For more, visit www.happymelly.com.  

FullGlass Co-Founder, Giovanni Battista Pozza gets philosophical with Happy Melly in his first english interview. He explains why creating a happy company culture is like cultivating and growing a garden. For more information, please visit www.happymelly.com.  

Gap Jumper Co-founder, Petar Vujosevic explains how in order for companies to truly accept blind auditions they have to move from their heads to their hearts. For more information, visit www.happymelly.com.  

Sam speaks with Sarah and Jurgen about trying to understand what a work-life balance actually looks like. For more information, please visit www.happymelly.com.