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<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Hello fellow Editors,</div>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Perhaps you have students / colleagues who might be interested in this event (or conceivably you yourselves!)...</div>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">One of UPOP's terrific and lively mentor-instructors, Rich Sheridan, CEO of Menlo Innovations (which is a really cool software company in Ann Arbor), is giving a talk on Wednesday Jan 15, 6 pm in Walker Memorial. The subject
is Rich's new book about Menlo's famously unusual approach to running a business--"no bosses, no managers, no secrets, no rules, no walls, and no fear." The event is free, with refreshments, open to the public, and bound to be stimulating! Here's the official
blurb, and feel free to pass it hither and yon. </div>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Cheers,</div>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jessica</div>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Hacking Management: In Pursuit of the Business Value of Joy</div>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Learn what focusing on Joy can do for a company!</div>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Polly LaBarre of The MIX will interview author Rich Sheridan about his newly released book Joy, Inc. -- How We Built a Workplace People Love.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Inc. magazine recently named Sheridan’s Menlo Innovations the "Most Joyful Company in America" and 800-CEO-READ named Joy, Inc. "Management Book of the Year".</div>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Menlo Innovations has flipped the most slavishly followed tenets of “modern” organization and turned itself into a laboratory for churning out clever alternatives. There is no chain of command at Menlo. There are no bosses,
no managers, no secrets, no rules, no walls, and no fear. What they have instead are a series of clever mechanisms and radically practical approaches to cultivating collaboration, collective decision-making, focus, and performance. This is why we’re delighted
to be hosting a live, in-person Maverick Hangout with Menlo Innovations co-founder and CEO, Richard Sheridan on Wednesday, January 15th at 6pm-8pm on MIT's Campus. We’ll dive into the principles behind building a joy-based culture, talk about what it means
to unleash so much freedom, experimentation, openness and amp up productivity, ingenuity, and alignment at the same time. And we’ll get into the details of Menlo’s redesign of so many core management practices.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Copies of the book will be available for sale at the event. Attendance is open to the public at no charge. There will be light refreshments.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">01/15 Wed 06:00pm - 08:00pm</div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">BLDG 50: Morss Hall 142 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA</div>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">To register (by Tuesday Jan 14 2 pm, if possible): http://upop.mit.edu/events/view/?id=618</div>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Sponsor:</div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">MIT's Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program ("UPOP")</div>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Contact Person:</div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Kate Moynihan</div>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">617-253-0041</div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">KATEJM@MIT.EDU</div>
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