John Housego: On WL Gore and its trust-based leadership
W.L. Gore has been listed on Fortune magazine’s 100 Best Companies to Work For since 1984 due to their value and trust-based culture. John Housego explains what makes W.L. Gore so special.
8 companies that celebrate mistakes
Do we want people to make mistakes? The answer I generally get to this question is “Yes”, because people recognise that this is how we learn and discover new ways of doing things.
8 Companies That Don’t Have Managers
At Happy we let people choose their managers, an idea which has been seen as very radical when I’ve spoken about it (eg, on Radio 4 last year). However there are companies that have gone a step further and got rid of managers altogether. Some are small but some are billion-dollar companies: 1) Zappos: The […]
Radio 4 Four Thought: Let People Choose Their Managers
Below is the script of the talk for Radio 4’s Four Thought, broadcast on 22nd May 2013. Listen to it here As I talked from prompts it won’t be exactly the same. But this is roughly what I planned to say: 49% of the UK working population would take a pay cut to have a […]
