Let my people surf - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog Im back from my 4-day trip to India where I spoke at the World HRD Congress in Mumbai (and did a really, REALLY good job). Ill be blogging about it soon. Meanwhile, My friend Lars Pind pointed me to this video of Yvon Chouinard talking about how he founded Patagonia and some of the unusual policies they have, including setting all employees free to surf whenever they want: Ive set the video above to start at my favorite place, but if you can, take an hour and watch the whole thing. Heres how Yvon summed it up in a previous interview: I?m a businessman, but I?m still going to do things on my own terms. I?m going to break a lot of rules, and we?re going to blur the distinction between work and play. So we have a policy here ? it?s called ?Let My People Go Surfing.? A policy which is, when the surf comes up, anybody can just go surfing. Any time of the day, you just take off and go surfing? That attitude changes your whole life.
Let my people surf - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog