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How to Cultivate Joy on Your Team

2024/12/4
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Richard Sheridan 认为快乐是许多工作场所中缺失的关键要素，它对创新至关重要。他强调快乐与幸福的不同，快乐在于服务他人，在于团队共同努力克服困难，即使过程中会有不快乐的时刻。他分享了自己过去在工作中因为缺乏快乐而辞职的经历，以及后来如何通过改变领导风格、管理方法和流程来创造快乐的工作环境。他认为恐惧会扼杀创造力，而快乐的工作环境才能促进创新。他主张领导者应该为团队树立快乐的榜样，并通过倾听、鼓励和支持来建设团队。他还分享了在解雇员工时应该如何以人为本，并提供必要的支持。他认为，即使在大公司，也可以从改变一个小团队开始，逐步影响其他团队。他鼓励员工从个人行为做起，例如微笑、积极主动等，来提升工作氛围。 Curt Nick 作为主持人，引导 Richard Sheridan 分享了他对快乐工作文化的理解和实践经验，并就快乐与幸福的区别、如何平衡乐观、现实、恐惧和希望等问题进行了深入探讨。他与 Richard Sheridan 就如何创造快乐的工作环境、如何成为一名优秀的领导者等方面进行了交流。 Curt Nick 作为主持人，主要负责引导访谈，提出问题，并对 Richard Sheridan 的观点进行总结和补充。他引导 Richard Sheridan 分享了他对快乐工作文化的理解和实践经验，并就快乐与幸福的区别、如何平衡乐观、现实、恐惧和希望等问题进行了深入探讨。他与 Richard Sheridan 就如何创造快乐的工作环境、如何成为一名优秀的领导者等方面进行了交流，并对 Richard Sheridan 的一些观点进行了进一步的阐述和补充。

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Richard Sheridan was inspired by the stories of Thomas Edison's Menlo Park laboratory, where work was joyful and innovative.
  • Thomas Edison's Menlo Park was known for its joyful and innovative work environment.
  • Richard Sheridan named his company Menlo Innovations to embody this spirit of joy and innovation.

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If you had to describe your company’s culture in a single word, what would it be? Are you super flexible and casual? Are you collaborative and inclusive?

Software executive Richard Sheridan** argues that one key quality is missing from too many workplaces today: joy.

As CEO of Menlo Innovations, an enterprise software company based in Michigan, Sheridan deliberately focuses on cultivating joy in his company. His 2018 book, Chief Joy Officer: How Great Leaders Elevate Human Energy and Eliminate Fear*, offers guidance for how to create joy at work — and why it’s so important for innovation.

He explains the difference between joy and happiness and how to harness joy in service of a larger project. He also discusses how, as a leader, you can model joy for your team and why joy and a culture of fear are incompatible.

Key episode topics include: leadership, managing people, emotional intelligence.

HBR On Leadership curates the best case studies and conversations with the world’s top business and management experts, to help you unlock the best in those around you. New episodes every week.

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