Build a Workplace People Love – Just Add Joy
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Build a Workplace People Love – Just Add Joy Create an intentional team culture focused on the business value of joy. Unleash the human energy and the results you always knew were possible. Rich will explore what an intentionally joyful culture must choose as its focus. He will discuss what joy looks like, feels like, and how it is organized. Along the way, you will be confronted by paradoxical approaches of how workplace noise increases productivity, how two people at one computer outperform hero-based organizations 10-to-1, how rigor and discipline emanate from a shared-belief system, how transparency conquers fear, and how quality can be a natural result of a team built on trust. He will also address how all of the disciplines you study (including agile, lean, and six sigma) are really about building human relationships at the intersections of business and technology, between project management and software development, and between development and design. This is not a theoretical talk, but rather one built from well over a decade of experience of leading a team focused on “the business value of joy.” There will be plenty of room for discussion with the audience. You will begin to understand why thousands of people make the journey to Ann Arbor, Michigan every year to see The Menlo Software Factory firsthand, and why so many more are reading about it in Joy, Inc. – How We Built A Workplace People Love. From kid programmer in 1971 to Forbes cover story in 2003, Joy, Inc. author Richard Sheridan has never shied from challenges, opportunities nor the limelight. While his focus has always been around technology, his passion is actually process, teamwork and organizational design, with one inordinately popular goal: the Business Value of Joy! He is the CEO, Founder and Chief Storyteller at Menlo Innovations. ABOUT RICH SHERIDAN WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING www.menloinnovations.com I find Rich’s talk telling a story about how we as human beings should be in constant “intentional” design to bring joy to our workplace. This is fundamental to achieve any greater business outcome. He explains true meaning of “business value of joy” through the Menlo story. —Kamal Manglani, Agile Coach Fortune 500 Companies
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Build a Workplace People Love – Just Add JoyCreate an intentional team culture focused on the business value of joy. Unleash the human energy and the results you always knew were possible.
Rich will explore what an intentionally joyful culture must choose as its focus. He will discuss what joy looks like, feels like, and how it is organized. Along the way, you will be confronted by paradoxical approaches of how workplace noise increases productivity, how two people at one computer outperform hero-based organizations 10-to-1, how rigor and discipline emanate from a shared-belief system, how transparency conquers fear, and how quality can be a natural result of a team built on trust. He will also address how all of the disciplines you study (including agile, lean, and six sigma) are really about building human relationships at the
intersections of business and technology, between project management and software development, and between development and design.
This is not a theoretical talk, but rather one built from well over a decade of experience of leading a team focused on “the business value of joy.” There will be plenty of room for discussion with the audience. You will begin to understand why thousands of people make the journey to Ann Arbor, Michigan every year to see The Menlo Software Factory firsthand, and why so many more are reading about it in Joy, Inc. – How We Built A Workplace People Love.
From kid programmer in 1971 to Forbes cover story in 2003, Joy, Inc. author Richard Sheridan has never shied from challenges, opportunities nor the limelight. While his focus has always been around technology, his passion is actually process,
teamwork and organizational design, with one inordinately popular goal: the Business Value of Joy! He is the CEO, Founder and Chief Storyteller at Menlo Innovations.
ABOUT RICH SHERIDAN WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
www.menloinnovations.com
I find Rich’s talk telling a story about how we as human beings should be in constant “intentional” design to bring joy to our workplace. This is fundamental to achieve any greater business outcome. He explains true meaning of “business value of joy” through the Menlo story.
—Kamal Manglani, Agile Coach Fortune 500 Companies
