For a healthy lifestyle

Arianna Haffington left Huffpost to fight the Pandemia of Burning at Work

The head of the Huffington Post, one of the most influential media managers of the world, Arianna Haffington leaves the publication for the sake of a new project. She will develop a startup on increasing the quality of life of Thriveglobal, the launch of which is scheduled for November 2016. "Medusa" tells why Huffington should not be surprised at the Huffington transition to a new quality.

Arianna Haffington headed Huffington Post for more than ten years. On Thursday, August 11, she announced her decision to leave the publication in order to concentrate at work in the startup of Thriveglobal. At the same time, in June 2015, Huffington entered into an agreement by which she was supposed to remain president and editor-in-chief of the site bearing her name until 2019. Early resignation occurred after successful investment negotiations on the new company Huffington: last week Thriveglobal closed the first round of financing.

“I thought I could combine both [companies], but when we moved to the active phase, I realized that my complete presence would be required there. It is important to realize the moment when one door closes and another opens, and for me this moment has come, ”Haffington explained her decision. The publication was not ready for the care of its leader: Haffington was not found to quickly replace, so while its duties are performed by the editorial council.

The new Haffington company is not a media, but a service. The startup Thriveglobal will advise other companies on labor organization - one in which the quality of life of employees does not suffer and at the same time their productivity is growing. “The mission of Thriveglobal is to change how we work and live by committing a common misconception that burnout is a mandatory price of success,” the company’s press release says, the launch of which is scheduled for November.

A professor of the Worton Business School Adam Grant , who specializes in organizational psychology ( was called one of the 25 most influential thinkers in the field of management), as well as a neurosurgeon from the University of Ohio Ali Rezai , have already agreed to cooperate with a startup. disorders.

Improving the quality of life has been interested in Huffington for the past few years. In 2015-2016, she wrote the books “Prospect” (Thrive ”and“ The Sleep Revolution)-work began to comprehend their own lifestyle. In one of the books, Haffington writes that one day from lack of sleep she lost consciousness and woke up in a pool of blood with a broken skill and a broken eye. This episode became a turning point: she thought about what price for success in the modern world people are ready to pay. In the following months, Huffington gained in the new quality of a popularizer of a healthy lifestyle in general and a healthy sleep in particular.

Haffington is one of those who rethink the media-industrial. The Huffington Post platform launched in May 2005. The Arianna Huffington project used the possibilities of the Internet much more aggressive than other media. Huffington Post was one of the first to bet on blogs, inviting famous people as authors; Readers were invited to comment on them, argue with celebrities and publish their notes. At the same time, no reward was supposed for the publication of the speakers even in the case of stellar authors. It turned out that this is not a problem at all - there were more people who were ready to work for free for publication in large media than people working only for money, writes The Guardian.

Huffington Post began as a platform for opinions, which was criticized a lot for the use of "slave labor". However, then the bloggers collected around the resource began to bring him exclusives. One of the most important for the formation of the Huffpost reputation was the deciphering of Barack Obama’s speech during the 2008 election campaign. This exclusive publication was brought by a 61-year-old housewife, who came to Obama's meeting with supporters closed to the media. Three years later, the Huffington Post received its first Pulitzer Prize for full journalistic material about veterans, and by 2016 the resource has turned into international media imperisia with publications in several countries and its own television.