Management QOL in the News - November 24, 2021
Gaining The Edge
Talita Greyling
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Management QOL in the News - November 5, 2021
4 Habits of the Happiest People Rarely Practiced by Most Workers
By Marcel Schwantes, Founder and Chief Human Officer, Leadership From the Core
Let's all collectively acknowledge that the last 20 months have not been a walk in the park. A global pandemic, loss of jobs, social and racial unrest, political division, vaccine mandates, our own personal tragedies, and the list goes on and on. As we close out another year of extreme challenges, this is the time to be thinking about making smart choices to ensure our happiness and well-being as we head into the new year. What is it that needs to change for you? If you consult science, there are things we can do regularly that are not only good for our own health and well-being but are especially good for the health of our teams and workplaces.
Management QOL in the News - November 1, 2021
Warren Buffett Says Your Overall Happiness and Success May Be Tied to This 1 Mental Habit
By Marcel Schwantes, Founder and Chief Human Officer, Leadership From the Core
Those who've been reading this column know I like to write about Warren Buffett. I have learned a lot of great investment and life tips from the Oracle of Omaha. But more to the point, one of the big reasons I love to write about Buffett is that he possesses a tremendous amount of optimism, a quality that science finds shared by many entrepreneurs. Successful entrepreneurs embrace the belief that no matter what, choosing to be in a mindset of positivity and pushing aside self-doubts will eventually yield results.
Management QOL in the News - October 22, 2021
The Meaning of Life Is Surprisingly Simple
By Arthur C. Brooks
Want to live in a directed, resolute way? To always know why you’re doing what you’re doing? There’s a simple way to make your dreams come true: Go find the meaning of life!
People who believe that they know their life’s meaning enjoy greater well-being than those who don’t. One 2019 study found that agreeing with the statement “I have a philosophy of life that helps me understand who I am” was associated with fewer symptoms of depression and higher positive affect.
Management QOL in the News - June 29, 2021
We’re Learning the Wrong Lessons From the World’s Happiest Countries
By Joe Pinsker
Since 2012, most of the humans on Earth have been given a nearly annual reminder that there are entire nations of people who are measurably happier than they are. This uplifting yearly notification is known as the World Happiness Report.
With the release of each report, which is published by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, the question is not which country will appear at the top of the rankings, but rather which Northern European country will. Finland has been the world’s happiest country for four years running; Denmark and Norway hold all but one of the other titles (which went to Switzerland in 2015).
The rankings are reliably discouraging for Americans, who have never cracked the global top 10. We are merely in the upper middle class of happiness—respectable, but underwhelming for a country with our level of wealth and self-regard.
Management QOL in the News - June 8, 2021
Work and Wellbeing in the 21st Century
The nature of work and the way it is conceptualised has been evolving since the dawn of humankind. As societies have shifted from hunter gathering to an agrarian basis and then to urban living, the activities that people have undertaken have changed. In parallel, the arrangements for the delegation of labour have altered from systems such as slavery, serfdom and indentured labour to paid employment and contracting. The pace of change has been increasing exponentially and the information technology revolution has transformed work for many in less than a generation.
Management QOL in the News - March 20, 2021
World Happiness Report 2021
The World Happiness Report 2021 focuses on the effects of COVID-19 and how people all over the world have fared. Our aim was two-fold, first to focus on the effects of COVID-19 on the structure and quality of people’s lives, and second to describe and evaluate how governments all over the world have dealt with the pandemic. In particular, we try to explain why some countries have done so much better than others.
