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The Happiness Advantage: Escaping the Cult of the Average

Strategy Driven

In The Happiness Advantage , Shawn Achor, who spent over a decade living, researching, and lecturing at Harvard University, draws on his own research – including one of the largest studies of happiness and potential at Harvard and others at companies like UBS and KPMG – to fix this broken formula. Consider leaving a comment!

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The Happiness Advantage: Introduction

Strategy Driven

In The Happiness Advantage , Shawn Achor, who spent over a decade living, researching, and lecturing at Harvard University, draws on his own research – including one of the largest studies of happiness and potential at Harvard and others at companies like UBS and KPMG – to fix this broken formula. Consider leaving a comment!

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The Happiness Advantage: Discovering the Happiness Advantage

Strategy Driven

In The Happiness Advantage , Shawn Achor, who spent over a decade living, researching, and lecturing at Harvard University, draws on his own research – including one of the largest studies of happiness and potential at Harvard and others at companies like UBS and KPMG – to fix this broken formula. Consider leaving a comment!

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The Happiness Advantage: Paradise Lost and Found

Strategy Driven

In The Happiness Advantage , Shawn Achor, who spent over a decade living, researching, and lecturing at Harvard University, draws on his own research – including one of the largest studies of happiness and potential at Harvard and others at companies like UBS and KPMG – to fix this broken formula. Consider leaving a comment!

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The Transformational Leader: Compass to a New World, part 1

Strategy Driven

Front Runners step-by-step program includes case studies, illustrations, graphs, glossary, and bibliography. How well do you know your employees’ skills, work ethic, and willingness to embrace change? Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Make critical decisions faster, with deeper buy-in from stakeholders.

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Let’s Be Honest About Lying

Harvard Business Review

Consider the case study unfolding right now in Brazil at the World Cup. And the ability to convince people of something even if it is not quite the case, the art of salesmanship, is a quality actually both common to and useful in leaders. Ethics Leadership Managing yourself' More provocatively: should you do it?

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Winning Support for Flexible Work

Harvard Business Review

Case Study #1: Creating a unique job share. We have the same outlook, the same goal, the same vision, the same work ethic. Not only did Ford's management agree, they put the duo in charge of one of their most high-profile 2011 launches — the new Ford Explorer. Case Study #2: Taking time off for personal development.