At Happy Melly we believe that good management shouldn’t be just about practices, but even more about principles. Management 3.0 for instance isn’t a ‘method’. It’s a concept. On the other hand, in order to learn how to do things, people need concrete practices. Things they can work on, starting next Monday. One of those practical things is using Kudo Cards: cards that you can use to show your appreciation for what your co-workers have done. I wrote about them before, right here. This time I talked about Kudo Cards with Robert Misch, a great guy who works at ...

Although a lot of people I know get inspiration from management courses and books, there’s one thing they often ask themselves. ‘What can I start with this Monday? And then do Tuesday?’ Personally I don’t believe in books or practices that change the world overnight. Or on a Monday afternoon, no matter how sunny. What I do believe in is changing your world step by step. As does Robert Misch ...

Although starting a new challenge is always great, the first couple of days at a new company often are not. New employee orientation usually is made up on the go. As a result, people can feel quite lost. As a friend of mine once told me, “You have no clue about what you should do first and you have to ask everything about everything.” The horror! At the German company Gutefrage.net (sounds familiar? I wrote about them before here and here) they solved the problem. I asked my dear friend Robert Misch about it.