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The FT & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year award

The FT has announced the six books that have made this year’s shortlist. You can read an excerpt from each book here.

Can a global business be idealistic?

This is a question that the FT asked in their weekly feature Judgement Call. I was pleased that Rohit Deshpandé said that there is a growing movement towards living by a guiding set of principles regardless of the local views on how businesses should be run.

Elliot makes the FT’s Legal Innovator of the Year finals

We are delighted that Elliot Moss is a finalist in the Financial Times’ Legal Innovator of the Year. Elliot is the first non-lawyer to be included in the FT’s 10 most innovative individuals in the legal sector. Elliot is a shareholder in Make Happy and first worked with Jonathan at Leo Burnett where they both started on the graduate trainee scheme.

Google’s London HQ

I’m always surprised by how often clients neglect office design when considering their internal communications planning. Yet the office environment is a key part of the culture and communications of an organisation. It impacts how people work, the manner and the frequency they talk to each other and how information flows through the company structure. I read recently that in one company a redesign to a more open space resulted in a fall in email traffic of 50%.

Elizabeth Murdoch on the importance of values and purpose

In August Elizabeth Murdoch gave the James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh Television Festival. She talked compellingly about values and purpose, something very close to the heart of all of us here at Make Happy. She also threw down a challenge to government and business, arguing that success based solely on money is inherently dangerous and often leads to bad behaviour.

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