Tag Archive for ‘happiness’
The Doorbell is Dead
by Ed Muzio, author of Make Work Great: Supercharge Your Team, Reinvent the Culture, and Gain Influence — One Person at a Time
Literally, my doorbell is dead. It’s one of those battery operated wireless ones. I think it got some water in it, and it doesn’t work. Plus, my front door is fifteen feet behind a locked [...]
Human Contact Leading Source of Happiness
A study undertaken by Coca-Cola has uncovered the leading sources of happiness. The global study which covers 16 countries and four continents identifies what happiness means to different nationalities and reveals that, despite the rapid pace of growth in the virtual world, human contact wins hands down when it comes to happiness.
Thank you Zappos, for [...]
Employee Engagement = Find Higher Meaning/Purpose
If we look at the happiness framework by Tony Hsieh (CEO, Zappos) we start to see that unless we focus on the “right” things our happiness will be only momentary. As we looked at this framework, it became more obvious to us that we could use it to help employees select jobs where they would [...]
The “If/Then” Model of Happiness is Flawed
What do you have to get to be happy? So many of us live by the philosophy of “we have to get something, do something all to be happy – the if/then model” – this clearly isn’t the answer. Watch this video by Srikumar Rao: Plug into your hard-wired happiness:
Are You Happy at Work?
Do you wake up each day radiantly alive and brimming with cheer?
Do you derive deep meaning from what you do?
Are you so passionate about your work that you would almost pay for the privilege of doing it?
These are just a few of the provocative questions that Dr. Srikumar Rao poses in this book, which is [...]
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