work Tag

Whether we like it or not, and despite what we often read and hear most of us do like it, the majority of people spend much of their waking life in some sort of paid occupation. The bottom line is that much of our life...

20 August, 2013

By Geoffrey James from Inc.com A reader recently pointed me to some "rules for a happier life" that various folks have posted in various forms. Here's my take on those rules as they apply to the workplace: 1. Don't compare yourself to others. Everybody, and I mean everybody,...

06 March, 2013

New research reveals something pretty obvious. Thanking and rewarding employees can give your business a boost. by Kathleen Kim for inc.com Don’t hold off until annual performance reviews to praise stellar employees. A simple “thank you” here and there can boost efficiency and even help your business...

13 November, 2012

Learn these strategies to make your employees happy, and extravagantly execute them. You'll create a better business. by Margaret Heffernan for Inc.com Most CEOs know that, if their workers are happy, they're also more productive. But how to make them happy is the challenge. Many take the...

11 July, 2012

With most people heading off to work on Monday morning how many will be heading to a positive workplace?  Well, the good news is that many will; and some more good news is that we can learn from them and create more happy workplaces.  So let's start...

24 June, 2012

Right, so most of us are at work today; and most of us will be back at work tomorrow; and most of us will continue to work the next day and the next week and...

28 May, 2012

Within The Happiness Institute we have a very important division that for various reasons I don't talk about a lot here on this blog. But this division makes up a big part of what we do and it addresses a bit part of most people's...

13 March, 2012

I read something recently that reminded me of a question I'm often asked about the relationship between work and happiness.  For many people, too many I believe, work and happiness and separate and discrete entities.  Work is something that takes up most of the time between Monday...

12 July, 2011

Here at The Happiness Institute we've promoted this philosophy for about a decade now. Happiness is good for the happy person; but happiness is also good for all those people around that happy person! Because happiness is contagious; it spreads, virally, creating positive cycles that benefit...

28 June, 2011