YoooHooo
In 2013, when I moved to Madrid, Spain, my friend and I decided not only to commit ourselves to excellence and continuous improvement in the workplace, but also to create a social community that would bring people from diverse backgrounds together. One night, whilst sitting outside of a bar at 4am, still drinking (I discovered that many places in Spain will actually remain open until you decide to leave) we took a little catchphrase that my friend always used and converted it into a name for the community. It was Yooo H ooo (he used to say it fast and brief in a high-pitched voice, almost like a whistle). We specifically enforced that it must have three o’s either side of a bold upper-case H . The regular meeting would be ‘Yooo H ooo Thursday’ because, my friend stated, ‘if you are going to be hungover, better to waste Friday than a day of your weekend.’ Yooo H ooo grew and became a monster – something that we would say frequently in later months and years: ‘we h...