Heidi Grant Halvorson | March 14, 2013 You are stressed — by your deadlines, your responsibilities, your ever-increasing workload, and your life in general. If you are like me, you even stress about how much stress you’re feeling — worrying that it is interfering with your performance and possibly taking years off of your life. This…
Chris Berdik | GLOBE CORRESPONDENT March 10, 2013 YOU KNOW the feeling. In your head, it’s like a jackhammer. In your chest, it’s like a vice. In your stomach, it’s like a lead weight. It’s stress. Stress costs the American economy about $300 billion a year in medical bills and missed work, according to the World…
Joe Donatelli | March 4, 2013 Books, daytime talk shows, Jack Johnson—everywhere we turn someone is telling us to avoid stress. But those authors, experts, and mellow crooners might be doing everyone a disservice. Stress can be good. Alia Crum of Columbia University and her colleagues will publish research in the April 2013 edition of The Journal…
Emma Goldberg | Staff Writer February 26, 2013 Amidst midterm season, President-elect Peter Salovey has a message for students — stress can be good. In a recent study to be published in the April edition of The Journal of Social and Psychological Sciences, Salovey collaborated with lead author and Columbia adjunct professor Alia Crum GRD…
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Jenna Goudreau | Forbes February 12, 2012 Research shows that successful humor boosts both personal productivity and group effectiveness. According to Michelle Gielan, an expert in positive psychology and cofounder of the Institute for Applied Positive Research, when something makes us smile or laugh, the feel-good chemical dopamine is dropped into our systems, which turns…
Nicole Skibola | November 4, 2010 According to a recent survey of 1,500 chief executives conducted by IBM’s Institute for Business Value, CEOs identify “creativity” as the most important leadership competency for the successful enterprise of the future. The link may initially not be intuitive, but spawning creativity in the workforce comes back to corporate social responsibility.…
Listen to the podcast TRANSCRIPT SARAH GREEN: Welcome to the HBR IdeaCast from Harvard Business Review. I’m Sarah Green. I’m talking today with Shawn Achor, author other of The Happiness Advantage, and CEO of Aspirant, a research and consulting firm that uses positive psychology to improve performance at work. Shawn, thanks so much for taking…
Jenna Goudreau | October, 28, 2010 Research shows that happy employees are better paid, enjoy more job security and are less likely to quit or burn out. In order to boost your own workplace happiness and that of your team, positive psychology expert and author of The Happiness Advantage, Shawn Achor suggests taking the following steps.…
