Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Linqia's Chief Happiness Officer

Hi! I'm a new Linqia team star. My name is Ana Carolina and I am from Patagonia, Argentina. It´s been already two months since I became the “Chief Happiness Officer” at Linqia.

The best surprise in joining this team was to realize how everyone lives the company's culture & values. We organize ourselves to live each value every day. This is shown during our daily morning huddle of 10 minutes, where each Linqia Star provides a brief overview to the team about his or hers “what’s up”, “metrics for the day” and “stucks”.

Every Friday we have an extended team meeting adding our highlights of the week and talking deeper about operations and projects such as our values. I find this meeting very special since each one of us has the opportunity to share his or her personal and/or professional highlights with the rest of the team.

Moreover we enrich each other with special contributions from different team members e.g. an inspirational message in form of a video clip. Last week JC, our Interim COO, has inspired me deeply by showing us this video:



Last but not least, I love the weekly team meetings because Maria (Linqia's CEO) brings delicious croissants for everyone!

Linqia is giving me the discipline to organize my daily tasks in order to be more efficient and to better structure my day. The question is: “It's not about being busy. What are you busy about?”

Also, more and more understanding the way in which Linqia highlights the potential of online communities & groups, encourages myself to be the moderator of my own group. It´s called Eco Snowboarding. I believe that loving the mountains demands participation in the struggle to prevent that global warming melts our snow.

It´s a pleasure to work with such a wonderful professional team.

Thanks Linqia!

Ana Carolina Vicente

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