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Margie Warrell, Contributor | May 20, 2013 Leadership is far less about what you are doing, than about who you are being. If you think about the people who have influenced you most over the course of your career and life, it’s likely that what impacted you most was not what they did, but about who they were…
Dan Schawbel | 9 September 2013 I recently spoke to Shawn Achor, who is the author of the new book, Before Happiness: The 5 Hidden Keys to Achieving Success, Spreading Happiness, and Sustaining Positive Change. Shawn is the winner of over a dozen distinguished teaching awards at Harvard University, where he delivered lectures on positive psychology in the…
Nicole Skibola | November 4, 2010 According to a recent survey of 1,500 chief executives conducted by IBM’s Institute for Business Value, CEOs identify “creativity” as the most important leadership competency for the successful enterprise of the future. The link may initially not be intuitive, but spawning creativity in the workforce comes back to corporate social responsibility.…
Jenna Goudreau | October, 28, 2010 Research shows that happy employees are better paid, enjoy more job security and are less likely to quit or burn out. In order to boost your own workplace happiness and that of your team, positive psychology expert and author of The Happiness Advantage, Shawn Achor suggests taking the following steps.…
Rick Ferri | September 18, 2013 One of the keys to investment success is to avoid the noise. Investment noise is the constant drumbeat of extraneous information that we’re all subjected to day in and day out. It comes to us via the financial press, the internet and even in the workplace. Ignore this noise…
Laura Shin | Forbes Contributor November 30, 2013 Few deadlines are quite like the end of the year. Just as we are trying, in the home stretch, to do our best at work to nail that bonus, raise or promotion, we’ve got social events heating up, family events crowding in, and travel and all its various…
Kathy Caprino | May 29, 2014 Part of a series on The Happiness – Success Connection In the past eight years, I’ve heard from hundreds of professionals who’ve worked with other career coaches and consultants to no avail. They failed to generate the change or success they wanted, and wasted time, money and energy. I…
Kathy Caprino | 8/26/2013 If you conduct a Google search for “great career,” you’ll find over 1.4 million hits – articles, interviews, books, videos, training programs, ads and much more (and some of these will be my own posts about what it takes to have a satisfying career). But the vast majority of these touch on the outer…
Mark C. Crowley, Fast Company November 2014 By the late 1990s, the number of people diagnosed with depression in the U.S. had increased by nearly 1,000% in just a half-century according to the World Health Organization. Believing that psychological research had been too narrowly focused on finding new treatments for human despair—and not on a…
