You Need to Foster the Power of Joy | James Goebel | TEDxTraverseCity

Joy is a powerful force that can bring about positive change in the world. I challenge you to be mindful about fostering joy.

James Goebel is a founding partner of Menlo Innovations. Menlo uses highly collaborative project teams to design and implement innovative products for clients that place high value on user adoption.
The team he helped build at Menlo Innovations has successfully blended an Extreme Programming development team, usability design specialists, a quality assurance practice, and formal project management. Representatives from start-up companies as well as large Fortune 500 firms routinely tour Menlo's Software Factory environment to study its implementation of agile.
James has worked in a variety of environments, from 2 employee startups up to billion dollar organizations. As a coach and change agent, James has helped organizations achieve dramatic transformations in both process and culture. He enjoys speaking at conferences, teaching classes, and speaking to small local groups in order to share the lessons he has learned.

[thomasbrady]

I agree with Jim. At The Values Centre, we actually measure individual, leadership, organizational and community happiness and joy. In our lingo, happiness is satisfying "self interest" values and joy is satisfying "common good" values. Right in the middle is transformation, when you realize that there is much more to life than your own happiness while not to minimizing it's importance. Many of us start to make that distinction in our 30s and it gets stronger as we evolve.

[TonySwaby]

The real strength is to see Joy in the moment. "The Joy Principle"

[ramatunkalle]

Wow, this was excellent. Thank you soo much Mr. Joy

[TonySwaby]

The Joy Principle is all about seeing the joy in the moment. Reflecting on the joy is very important, but if the joy of the moment is registered the power of the reflection will be greater. When people were asked to change seats, there was joy, right there. I heard people laughing and because it was a significant event that joy was registered and would be a major reference when those people reflected.

[chiromommy]

Wow! James - this is amazing - thanks for sharing! I especially liked the example of your eldest and the dollhouse. Good for you for embracing the Eeyore within - I really fight against this tendency in myself. I think you nailed it with Joy and appreciate your insights.

[aminghanbari]

Why does a video like this from 2016 get 2k views and 14 likes when some ridiculous videos get millions?
It’s sad that this is where humanity is headed.