The Yield of Happiness
The Yield of Happiness Research to be unveiled at ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN Productivity and hard work have long been integral pieces of a successful workplace. Now human emotion is joining them....
View ArticleFormula for happiness
I spent Monday and Tuesday getting inspired at the Future of Talent Retreat. This is my eighth year in row. Every returning alumnus said they inevitably depart with new ways of looking at the world....
View ArticleUpdate from Europe
Foreign environments exhilarate me. I just got back from Online Educa Berlin and a series of private conversations in Europe. Insights are overflowing my ability to record them and I’m having a ball....
View ArticleSitting kills
Taking a Stand for Office Ergonomics The health hazards of sitting for long stretches are significant even for people who are quite active when they’re not sitting down Still, scientists have...
View ArticleGiving my computers a break
Ten years ago next month, Clifford Nass and Byron Reeves published The Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media Like Real People and Places. The Stanford profs had...
View ArticleHappiness is yours for the taking
Pier 39, home to a dozen restaurants and a thousand sea lions. Thirty years ago my boss gave me an assignment I’ll never forget. “I’ve rented a Santa Claus costume for tonight’s Christmas party,” he...
View ArticleGreater Good Science Center
I just got back from the first local member meeting of the Greater Good Science Center here in Berkeley. Started by a grant a dozen years ago, Greater Good was a print magazine. The founders imagined...
View ArticleYour character strengths
You can achieve more success by fully leveraging your strengths than by shoring up your weaknesses. Spend twenty minutes to take the VIA Survey of Character Strengths on the Authentic Happiness site....
View ArticleEmotional Business
D R A F T Some of you have inquired about my research into happiness and well-being. I paused the project for six weeks. Upon return, I realized there’s a lot more to it. Taking a broader perspective,...
View ArticleCan your team’s marriage be saved?
Can This Marriage Be Saved? by Jay Cross Return to: http://clomedia.com/views/articles/can-this-marriage-be-saved/ The National Institute of Mental Health spent millions of your tax dollars to build...
View ArticleWant to be happier? Lead a more meaningful life? a
If you feel your life’s not all it could be, consider joining us in Berkeley on Wednesday evening for a small group session on finding true happiness. This is the unofficial member meeting of...
View ArticleHappiness deck
Prototype for happiness/well-being card deck. What do you think? My calling is to help a millon people lead happier and more satisfying lives. Mainly business people caught up in the rat race. There’s...
View ArticleScience of Happiness MOOC
Along with 100,000 other people, I’ve enrolled in a free MOOC on The Science of Happiness. UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, is producing the course. It’s being administered on the EdX...
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