Solving for Happiness at ITV
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Claim: workplace happiness is the lever for high performance, emerging from three measurable areas: environment people leadership. Concrete prescription: ensure hygiene (working laptops, multimodal office, job security), hire smart and kind people, and give teams autonomy mastery purpose. Evidence: applied to a cloud hosting team that grows from 3 to ~20 in 2.5–3 years, at a broadcaster with £3bn revenue and 5,500 staff, and yields better retention and steadier high performance.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:50ITV operations
- 3:17Happiness and performance
- 5:22High-performing team
- 8:32Clark’s happiness equation
- 9:16Environment and happiness
- 11:22Hiring: smart and kind
- 14:58Leadership: autonomy, mastery, purpose
- 19:36Happiness equation recap
- 20:40Q&A
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