I recently attended an evening discussion with Martin Seligman, the author and psychology professor regarded as the founder and sage of positive psychology. His new book, Flourish, focuses on achieving a life of “well-being.” Seligman suggests we move beyond the search for happiness as the path to “lasting fulfillment”—something he advocated in his earlier book, […]
Jerry Murphy has been our guest blogger of a series of six posts focused on coaching new leaders. Read about Jerry below. One of a manager’s most challenging and rewarding situations is working with someone who is becoming a manager herself—either a first-time manager or taking on a new leadership position. In this series of […]
Jerry Murphy is guest blogger of a series of six posts focused on coaching new leaders. The series will run consecutively. Read about Jerry below. One of a manager’s most challenging and rewarding situations is coaching someone who is becoming a manager herself—either a first-time manager or taking on a new leadership position. In this […]
This Labor Day, I read a New York Times Op Ed titled “Do Happier People Work Harder?” (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/opinion/sunday/do-happier-people-work-harder.html). The Op Ed was saddening but at the same time affirming—saddening because it painted an American workforce as largely disengaged and unhappy at work. The article mentioned Gallup as estimating the cost of America’s disengagement crisis at […]
Jerry Murphy is guest blogger of a series of six posts focused on coaching new leaders. The series will run consecutively. Read about Jerry below. One of a manager’s most challenging and rewarding situations is working with someone who is becoming a manager herself—either a first-time manager or taking on a new leadership position. In […]
