“If I work harder, then I’ll be successful. When I’m successful, then I’ll be happy.”
This formula for happiness is broken and backwards according to Shawn Achor, the winner of over a dozen distinguished teaching awards at Harvard University.
Check out his excellent 12 minute TED-talk.
Last month I went to Amsterdam to participate and speak at the Stoos Connect Leadership Conference. It was a great event. The video of my presentation is up and you can check it out here: http://bit.ly/XUDBzN. Some of the other speakers were Daniel Pink, Roger L. Martin, Stephen Denning, Jaap Peters, Jurgen Apello and other people. Check out the full speaker list here: http://stoosconnect.nl/speakers/ and all the videos here: http://stoosconnect.nl/videos/