by HappyQuotient | Aug 9, 2018 | HBR
Are you frustrated that you dropped only a few pounds following a new diet, but your best friend lost almost 30? Why did the probiotics that helped your sister’s bloating sensation do nothing for you? Your coworker swears that going gluten-free made his joint...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 9, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
pm images/Getty Images From time to time, every leader has to deliver news that is hard for employees to hear. Even when businesses are doing well, organizational and structural change is to be expected, and acquisitions, reorganizations, or policy changes can...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 9, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
ses/Getty Images By any measure, Elon Musk is exceptionally successful. Having cofounded and sold PayPal, he quickly moved on to launching a range of ventures with world-changing aspirations for how we generate energy, transport ourselves and our goods, interface with...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 9, 2018 | GGSC, Happiness, Health, Inspire, Wellness
Do you take your partner for granted? Our Happiness Guinea Pig, cartoonist Gene Luen Yang, imagines a life in which he never met his wife. source https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/podcasts/item/partner_for_granted
by HappyQuotient | Aug 8, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Andy Roberts/Getty Images The overarching goal of most business schools is to train future leaders to lead. But how well schools meet this goal, and to what extent their teaching influences their students’ leadership, is an open question. Does business school...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 8, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Yagi Studio/Getty Images It was going to be the factory of the future. Dubbed the “Alien Dreadnought,” Tesla’s new manufacturing facility in Fremont, California, was designed to be fully automated — no humans need apply. If all went well,...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 8, 2018 | HBR
Meningitis can be a very scary infection — and vaccines can help prevent it. What is meningitis? The meninges are a membrane that covers and protects the brain and spinal cord. When that membrane gets inflamed, it’s called meningitis. One of the ways this inflammation...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 8, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Caspar Benson/Getty Images Working parents sometimes struggle with the feeling that they are either letting down their family or not meeting their career goals. It can be hard to strike the right balance. As with most of the challenges we face at work,...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 8, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Klaus Meinhardt/Getty Images The gap in wealth in the United States between the ultrawealthy and everyone else has reached its widest point in decades. One way to narrow the divide is through the use of worker buyouts, in which ownership of a company transfers from a...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 8, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Pgiam/Getty Images When Liz was offered a job as a product manager at a growing biotech firm, she was ecstatic. She had spent considerable time on her job search, found a company and a position that felt like a perfect fit, nailed her interviews, and negotiated...
