A week ago I finished reading Alexander Kjerulf’s book ‘Happy Hour is 9 to 5′. I have picked some provoking/lovable/cool quotes from the book:

… happiness  at  work  means  treating  everybody  differently, because treating everyone the same only makes very few people happy.

Happiness at work does not come from mission statements, corporate values, whitebooks, committees or workplace policies. It comes from the things you and I do, here and now.

Randy Nelson from Pixar has another great saying: You have to honor failure, because failure is just the negative space around success.

Management  überguru Peter  Drucker  provocatively suggested that businesses should find all theemployees who never make mistakes and fire them, because employees who never make mistakes neverdo anything interesting.

Psychological  studies  show  again  and  again  that  a  fundamental basis  for  our  happiness  is  the  ability  to  control  our  own  environment.

It’s  not  the  job  of  the  manager  to  motivate  employees.  That  is impossible.  It’s a manager’s  job to create a happy  work environment  in which employees are naturally motivated.

An article from the Harvard Business School put it like this: Most  companies  have  it  all  wrong.  They  don’t  have  to  motivate their employees.They have to stop demotivating them.

Buy and read the book – it is a nice read if you believe in people and a provoking if you are and old school manager

BTW. I can recommend Alexanders blog at http://positivesharing.com