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Five Happiness Traps

Leading Blog

McKee quotes Sarah Green Carmichael on this: “We log too many hours because of a mix of inner drivers, like ambition, machismo, greed, anxiety, guilt, enjoyment, pride, the pull of short-term rewards, a desire to prove we’re important, or an overdeveloped sense of duty.” It’s not always about greed. It’s often deeper than that.

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We All Work at Enron Now

Harvard Business Review

And is that, perhaps, the prime mover of what both Tyler Cowen and I have termed a Great Stagnation? Let's call it Enronia, for short. All of which might just hold a powerful lesson for the future of advantage — national organizational, and personal. Grow up!!" So here's why I ask. Innovation atrophy.