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IRISH INDEPENDENT: Work-life balance: Between a clock and a hard pace

Business, Health & WellnessBy Michelle GielanMay 18, 2014

Aine O’Connor | May 2014 How, they asked, was industry to remain profitable if workers were being paid more and working less? Proof was in the proverbial and within a few years they were following suit. Time and again, study after study has proven that shorter working weeks are more productive working weeks. It is…

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HUFF POST: Happiness Guaranteed: The Backwardness of the American Dream

Business, Health & WellnessBy Michelle GielanMay 30, 2014

Cosmin Gheorghe | May 29, 2014 It was my pleasure to chat today with another true culture change catalyst: Rich Sheridan, Cofounder and CEO at MenloInnovations and author of Joy, Inc.  There are four main issues that I take from my conversation with Rich, also reflected in some ways in Arianna Huffington’s latest book, Thrive: 1. Backwardness…

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FORBES: 8 Inner Keys To Greater Career Happiness and Success

Business, Health & Wellness, RelationshipsBy Michelle GielanMay 30, 2014

Kathy Caprino | May 29, 2014 Part of a series on The Happiness – Success Connection In the past eight years, I’ve heard from hundreds of professionals who’ve worked with other career coaches and consultants to no avail. They failed to generate the change or success they wanted, and wasted time, money and energy.  I…

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Huffington Post: Uncovering the 10 Culprits Robbing Your Happiness

Business, Health & WellnessBy Michelle GielanSeptember 14, 2014

Thai Nguyen, Huffington Post September 2014 I got pick-pocketed in Cusco recently. That’s one way to make a grown man cry. The pain of robbery always goes beyond the loss of material possessions. It’s that sense of violation. When our joy, peace and happiness is yanked away and replaced with a profound bitterness. My intuition…

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TIME: Harvard Research Reveals a Fun Way to Be More Successful

Articles, BusinessBy Michelle GielanOctober 27, 2014

ERIC BARKER | TIME Magazine October 15, 2014 We all want to be more successful. But everything you read probably sounds like a lot of work. Isn’t there a scientifically proven method that’s a little more… fun? There is. Shawn Achor is the bestselling author of The Happiness Advantage and for years at Harvard he studied exactly that: happiness. He gave an…

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Fast Company: 3 Uncommon Ways to Drive Happiness in the Workplace

BusinessBy Michelle GielanNovember 14, 2014

Mark C. Crowley, Fast Company November 2014 By the late 1990s, the number of people diagnosed with depression in the U.S. had increased by nearly 1,000% in just a half-century according to the World Health Organization. Believing that psychological research had been too narrowly focused on finding new treatments for human despair—and not on a…

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BBC Capital: Passion gone: Time to quit?

BusinessBy Michelle GielanNovember 14, 2014

Elizabeth Garone, BBC Capital November 2014 Over the course of a year, people spend a lot of time on the job but, that doesn’t necessarily mean they like their work. The French spend an average of 1,480 hours at work annually, Americans, 1,700 hours, and Singaporeans a whopping 2,400 hours, according to the Federal Reserve…

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Big Think: Google’s Algorithm for Happiness at Work and in Life

BusinessBy Michelle GielanNovember 15, 2014

Orion Jones | Big Think, November 2014 We all want to be happy. Some have even said that achieving happiness is the goal of life. But we wouldn’t look to a technology company for such wisdom, would we? It seems unlikely, and yet Google has made a real contribution to happiness studies thanks to one of…

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Huffington Post: To Increase Productivity: Work Less, Get Happy

Business, Health & WellnessBy Michelle GielanMarch 2, 2015

Beth Kuhel | Huffington Post, February 2015 Managers are perpetually searching for new and better ways to increase productivity and engagement of employees. While conventional reward systems for hard work and achievements show appreciation for those who are adding value to your team, these programs may not be enough to inspire people to contribute more…

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CNN: Will These Tricks Make You Smarter?

Business, Health & WellnessBy Michelle GielanApril 27, 2015

Marc Forster-Pert | CNN, April 2015 Forgotten why you went to the refrigerator? Struggling to concentrate on work and multitask at the same time? Join the club. Experts cite that eating well, reducing stress and physical activity are all ways to keep our brains sharp and functioning at top-notch speed. But in the same way…

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