"As bird is born to fly, a human is born to be happy."This book summarises recent researches in the happiness areas and shows interesting results. First, the pursuit of happiness does not make a person happy. Happiness does not improve performance.There are links to scientific articles. However, since it is a review and not proper book, I'm not sure if there are no contradicting researches.

In love with this collection I feel like the HBR gathers all the mainstream knowledge about soft skills and examined it through a scientific approach (dans la mesure du possible).This wasn't a self help book more a practical review of different implicatioms of happiness at the work place especially! So instead of preaching what one has to do to be happy (well it included a few social scientists tricks but this wasn't the main concern)."Are we finally seeing a backlash against happiness? Sort of.

Happiness is always our primary concern as a human being. It is one of the most strived emotions to achieve. But, how many of us won the game? Very few. Still, we are looking forward to grasping it and lead a fulfilling life.This book is treating Happiness from a business point of view. I personally liked the first and last two chapters. The final chapters try to figure out why we are seeking happiness, and what is the use of it. And it also highlights our happiness seeking behavior might be sel...

I appreciate the balance of essays surrounding happiness at the workplace, especially the last two providing counterarguments for overemphasis. I think the downside of having short essays is that they don't go as deeply as I would like, and therefore doesn't become memorable to me.

Quick read on improving happiness in the workplace and improving creativity.

Nothing special, but a good inspiration for my master thesis

To be honest, I picked this book up in Laguardia because my phone was low on battery and I needed to save what was left so I could order a Lyft when I got to my destination. That said, this book really surprised me. There is a diverse range of opinions on happiness, what it means to be happy, and where we should and end up searching for this long term fulfillment. It is a very quick read and great for traveling (no wonder they sell these in airports). While I probably won’t go out of my way for

What an amazing book! Quick read, very insightful, and every article leaves you thinking further about what you just read. Answers some questions and sparks others. What I read in this book started some of the best conversations I’ve had, and that deserves 5 stars.

A nice, quick introduction to happiness, how to achieve it at work, and why that might be important for both employees and employers. (The general gist is that being happy results in more creativity and productivity on behalf of workers, and managers who think that employees work best when scared of negative consequences or worried about job security are totally wrong.)There are two very brief essays at the end that take a negative view on happiness, but they seem to have been thrown in for some...

This book is filled with very interesting research on happiness. Although its really good book for anyone in management or learning about happiness specifically at work, i reccomened it for anyone interest in physcology and research on emotion!

They say that it takes one book to spark a passion for reading. This was it for me. Although the book is mostly focused on the business side of happiness, it is certainly applicable to every life situation. This book was key to my understanding of human behavior. The book offers a view on the positive sides of happiness as-well as the negative ones. I believe this is truly important to really understand a particular subjects. Overall, I really enjoyed the book.

Really good book this is the first book I have finished out for the HBR collection.

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE: HAPPINESS BOOKHAPPINESS CLASS: "It's only recently that we realized that we could marry one of our oldest questions - 'What is the nature of human happiness?' - to our newest way of getting answers: science. Until just a few decades ago, the problem of happiness was mainly in the hands of philosophers and poets." (28)RESILIENCE: "One of the misconceptions about happiness is that happiness is being cheerful, joyous, and content all the time; always heaving a smile on your

I love it because gives you small advice on how to be happy at work and most importantly why. Adding value on what you do everyday is something special therefore is good to discover what makes us happy in order to bring that value at work and live a fully happy life.

1. PERMA: 5 elements essential to lasting contentment: - positive emotion- engagement - relationships- meaning- accomplishment/ achievement 2. Being happy at work matters. To be fully engaged and happy, we need 3 things:- a meaningful vision of the future- a sense of purpose- great relationships3. The power of the smile4. The power of small wins5. Creating sustainable performance: thriving, which includes vitality and learning- 4 mechanisms that create the conditions for thriving employees: prov...

My favorite quotes and takeaways from HBR’s Happiness: Overall, I liked the concrete research and understanding how happiness affects work from a worker and a managers standpoint. “Happiness feels intolerably elusive for many of us. Like fog, you can see it from afar, dense and full of shape. But upon approach, it’s particles loosen and suddenly it becomes out of reach, even though it’s all around you.”“As our lives came to include more empathy, gratitude, and meaning, I stopped feeling sad.” “b...

This collection of articles from HBR about the subject of happiness is full of useful insights that many organizations can use to improve the overall morale of people in the workplace.The articles I would say is well balanced as there are presentations that advocate the subject while the last two articles gave us caution as to what seemed overemphasis towards the subject.Nevertheless, I would go with the happiness camp. Too many people around the world are not engage in the workplace. It is alre...

It helps you understand happiness on a deeper level and helps you fix your meaning of happiness. It helps you understand how to obtain it and what it is like to chase it. In the first chapter you will understand happiness and on the other chapters it will talk about happiness in a worker’s life; in a sense, we are all workers (also, students). It is small with good graphs here and there. It can be read multiple times till it gets stuck in the head, the true meaning.

Interesting book. Collection of articles that talk about various aspects of happiness, what it is and what it isn't. What I liked is that it gives different definitions and ways of looking at 'happiness', which enable people of various personalities to get something out of this book.It gives practical advice for what companies and leaders can do in order to improve daily lives and performance of colleagues.

I thought this book gave me a great insight into how employees and managers can help make the workplace a happier place. I originally bought it just for general happiness but it still had a great insight into things both employees and employers can do.