Achieving happiness while excelling at your career.
What is the nature of human happiness, and how do we achieve it in the
course of our professional lives? And is it even worth pursuing?
This book explores answers to these questions with research into how
happiness is measured, frameworks for personal behaviors, management
techniques that build happiness in the workplace--and warnings that
highlight where the happiness hype has been overblown.
This volume includes the work of:
Daniel Gilbert
Annie McKee
Gretchen Spreitzer
Teresa M. Amabile
This collection of articles includes "Happiness Isn't the Absence of
Negative Feelings" by Jennifer Moss; "Being Happy at Work Matters" by
Annie McKee; "The Science Behind the Smile" an interview with Daniel
Gilbert by Gardiner Morse; "The Power of Small Wins" by Teresa M.
Amabile and Steven J. Kramer; "Creating Sustainable Performance" by
Gretchen Spreitzer and Christine Porath; "The Research We've Ignored
About Happiness at Work" by André Spice and Carl Cedarström; and "The
Happiness Backlash" by Alison Beard.
How to be human at work. The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series
features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life
from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series
offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives,
practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and
inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at
work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills
that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.
