Design Your Work Life


wealthymatters,com“If you can shape your business life or your working life, you can just look at it as another extension – you just fulfill all your values as a human being in the work place. If you are an activist, you bring the activism of your life into your business, or if you love creative art, you can bring that in.”- Anita Roddick

“It’s not really work for me because I have no idea what work is anymore. It is so much a part of my life.” – Anita Roddick

Hear,Hear !


wealthymatters.com“A woman in advancing old age is unstoppable by any earthly force. I love it.”-Anita Roddick

Ten Simple Things That Make Us Happy


wealthymatters1. Discovering money you didn’t know you had

2. Winning a competition you forgot you entered

3. Getting a refund or rebate you didn’t know was due

4. Saving money on household bills

5. Finding a winning lottery ticket

6. Going to pay for an item and discovering its discounted

7. Losing a tiny bit of weight

8. Finding money in a supermarket checkout Read more of this post

Executing Innovation


wealthymattersA young sheep named Stella takes off on a holiday after graduating school, hiking on the Inca trail in Peru, where she meets a handsome alpaca named Alejandro.The two woolly animals have a whirlwind romance, thereby setting the stage for How Stella Saved the Farm, the new novella from Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble of Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. But this is no Mills & Boon romance.It is a parable about managing innovation in organisations.As you read it you will recognize familiar people and situations from your life.

Stella returns from Peru to her life in Windsor Farms, just in time to attend a meeting called by the CEO, a mare named Deirdre, who has recently taken over the reins from her father. Deirdre’s grandfather pioneered the concept of animal-owned farms when he took over the operations of the farm after the original owners, the Windsors, abandoned it. Read more of this post