I will be giving a keynote at the Joy.ology Talks event about happiness and corporate branding. My main premise is that focusing on happiness will not bring any productivity or profits to your organization. From an individual’s perspective, I will recommend the same. What I will advocate is a focus on “Quality of Life” which includes both objective and subjective measures. So, once you put “wellbeing-quality of life” at the center of your corporate branding initiatives, you are more likely to have thriving individuals, organizations and society.
On Success and Happiness
Here is a success and happiness wisdom for you from my favorite influencer: “Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I […]