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WHYHAPPINESSSHOULDBEYOURBUSINESSMODEL
Laurence McCahill, The Happy Startup School
@welovelean
Why happiness should be your business model
“He had the wealthiest pockets,
but the poorest soul. And in
those last minutes of his life, he
realised where he had failed.”
TOP REGRETS OF THE DYING
1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to
myself, not the life others expected of me
2. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard
3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my
feelings
4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends
5. I wish that I had let myself be happier
Why happiness should be your business model
Why happiness should be your business model
Why happiness should be your business model
“When you take
money from investors
their business model
becomes yours ”
Steve Blank
Why happiness should be your business model
Why happiness should be your business model
Why happiness should be your business model
*I’m crap at selfies
Why happiness should be your business model
Credit: Bud Caddell
“Have fun, do good
and the money
will come.”
Richard Branson
Who do you work to impact?
Why happiness should be your business model
“How can you
make your life,
and the lives of
others,
meaningfully
better?”
Why happiness should be your business model
“More of the economy
needs to move further up
Maslow’s pyramid”
Alain De Botton
Why happiness should be your business model
Why happiness should be your business model
Why happiness should be your business model
“If employees are treated right,
they treat the outside world right,
the outside world uses the
company’s product again,
and that makes the shareholders
happy.“ Herb Kelleher
Why happiness should be your business model
Why happiness should be your business model
HAPPYPEOPLEAREMOREPRODUCTIVE
HAPPYCUSTOMERSSPENDMORE
IFYOUCARE,THEY’LLCARE
Why happiness should be your business model
“Culture eats strategy
for breakfast”
Peter Drucker
Why happiness should be your business model
DEFINEWHATSUCCESSLOOKSLIKE
What will you do and bring to
being in the next 1,000 days?
FINDYOURHIGHERPURPOSE
“A business without a purpose
is as useless as a compass
without a needle.”
LIVE(DON’TLAMINATE)YOURVALUES
“In the absence of values,
all decisions go down to
profits.”
WRITEYOURCOMPANYEPITAPH
We shall remember them.
For they got us there
Cheaply and quickly*
*And that’s about it
“He never missed a meeting”
or
“He was a great father”
Why happiness should be your business model
Why happiness should be your business model
Why happiness should be your business model
MAKEHAPPINESSYOURBUSINESSMODEL
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THE PROGRAM
FROM PASSION TO PROFITS
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MISSION
ENTREPRENEURIAL HAPPINESS
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@WELOVELEAN @HAPPYSTARTUPS
THANKS

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