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What happy companies know : how the new science of happiness can change your company for the better / Dan Baker, Cathy Greenberg, Collins Hemingway.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baker, Dan, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Organizational effectiveness.
- Organizational sociology.
- Leadership.
- Corporate culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 298 p. ) ill. ;
- Edition:
- 1st edition
- Place of Publication:
- Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Happy companies are winning companies. Well-adjusted, psychologically healthy companies collaborate better. They innovate more effectively. They change faster. They see reality with exceptional clarity, but they know how to address it positively. They uncover opportunities where others fixate on obstacles and blame. What Happy Companies Know reveals the five crucial elements that happy companies share in common... and shows how to lead any company to happiness! This book reflects the experiences of the world's best companies, as well as the latest scientific research. Drawing on case studies from dozens of great businesses and exceptional leaders, this book's authors offer a complete blueprint, practical tools, and proven best practices for achieving organizational happiness and breakthrough performance. This book shows readers how to build a company where individuals at every level can apply their diverse strengths towards shared goals that are meaningful, positive, and profitable.
- Contents:
- The naked ape dons the designer suit
- What is a happy company and why do I want one?
- The nerd from the mists
- Scarcity behavior in the modern tribe
- Aggression, target fixation, and the crashes they cause
- The lesson of the salmon, or why happiness beats going belly up
- What's a body to do? personal and corporate strategies for health
- Humility, the most courageous form of leadership
- From guts to sight to heart, the role of visionaries
- Organizing for innovation
- Only the emotionally intelligent need apply
- Return on people
- Engage with people
- Doing well and doing good
- Tools for building constructive culture
- Happy companies are all alike and yet unique.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786610848218
- 9781280848216
- 1280848219
- 9780132054638
- 0132054639
- OCLC:
- 1027178318
- Publisher Number:
- 9780131858572
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