Filip Matous

Use emotional intelligence to lower workplace anxiety w/ Martyn Newman

by Filip Matous March 8, 2012

Ever hear someone use discrediting vocabulary like “pink and fluffy” when describing emotional intelligence? The reality is that there is a hard case for tangible organisational and financial returns when companies develop their EQ. Tomorrow, EW will be interviewing and covering insights from London’s 2012 Leadership & Emotional Intelligence Summit. Dr Paul Ekman, a world-leading psychologist, along with our

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Case Study: Zappos’ Company Culture Delivers Happiness

by Filip Matous February 13, 2012

Interview with Jenn Lim, the CEO of Delivering Happiness, a company that she and Tony Hsieh (CEO of Zappos) co-created in 2010 to inspire happiness in work, community and everyday life. We caught up with her to ask what some tangible results of a enviable company culture can be and why they offer 4,000 USD to

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Leadership & Emotional Intelligence Summit – London – 9th March 2012

by Filip Matous January 24, 2012

Join top HR Directors from around the globe at the 2012 Leadership & Emotional Intelligence Summit to be held in London on 9 March 2012, a powerful one day event that explores how organizations can more effectively identify, measure and develop successful leadership behaviours. Dr Martyn Newman is a consulting psychologist from Roche Martin and Enviable Workplace

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Why IBM hires World of Warcraft gamers – Joe Pine Video Interview

by Filip Matous November 25, 2011

Joe Pine coined The Experience Economy over a decade ago to describe our modern economy. We asked Joe to explore with you how bosses could use this concept to create workplace experiences for employees to improve retention and employee satisfaction. Towards the end of our interview we gained insight into why World of Warcraft gamers make

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Chip Conley: emotional equations for leadership in uncertain times

by Filip Matous October 3, 2011

EQ leadership interview with Chip Conley: Founder of Joie de Vivre, a hotel and restaurant company with HQ in San Francisco that employs 2,500 people. Our infatuation with Chip started last year when Enviable Workplace’s Andy Partridge called me up, sounding like he’d just downed a Red Bull, saying he’d found a leadership style that just vibed

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Risk aversion vs Social Media acceptance in the workplace

by Filip Matous June 30, 2011

DEF: Risk aversion is the reluctance of a person to accept a bargain with an uncertain payoff rather than another bargain with a more certain, but possibly lower, expected payoff. Two days ago I spoke at a social media conference with Fresh Business Thinking at London’s Microsoft HQ and walked away with one strong gut reaction: The

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Imitation plus innovation equals imovation – reward your copycats

by Filip Matous May 25, 2011

Search INNOVATION in the amazon.co.uk business book section and you’ll find 43,113 results; including a book on why most companies fail at innovation, that we reviewed on EW last year. However, search IMITATION and you get 3,300 books, roughly 13 percent of innovation’s results. This is our interview with Oded Shenkar, the author of Copycats, the number

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Company persona: Improve online communication w/ Jemima Gibbons

by Filip Matous February 2, 2011

If you are starting to use twitter or blogs as part of your business strategy, this post is for you. Often people new to these communication tools will struggle to find their personal touch. Have you defined your company culture regarding online communication? If so, how does it fit into your overall business strategy? For

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How to gain TRUST as a CEO with Roger Martin

by Filip Matous December 14, 2010

“Communicate equally with good news AND bad news” Roger Martin, Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. Roger gives his advice on how CEOs can gain trust from stockholders, employees and media: My take? Roger’s on the money. I don’t like being around people that are always sunny side up. I

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HCL’s CEO puts Employees First, Customers Second

by Filip Matous November 9, 2010

Seriously, how many CEOs rejoice when they receive 50,000 unresolved concerns from their employees within one month? “I celebrated because I thought we had discovered a way to resolve 50,000 undiscovered problems. What I missed was that if we are a company in 2005 that has 50,000 employee problems, it must be a real shit place.” –

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