Articles

A self-professed learning junkie. A trainer in all things leadership, people and positive. A current PhD student of Loughborough University...

This is where I share with you a number of articles I've stumbled across and find either fascinating or at least usefully interesting.  Hope you do too.  Click on the links below and Enjoy!

How to be happy

Why do some people enjoy life and others don't? Psychologists are spending $30m on trying to find out. Propose a movement whose aim is to bottle happiness so it can be dispensed to one and all, saving humanity from a future of chronic misery...

Ian Sample (2003) The Guardian | Read full article...

Exceeding Expectation: the principles of outstanding leadership

Penny Tamkin et al (2010) The Work Foundation | Read full article...

Inwardness: The rise of meaningful work

Like an embarrassing uncle at a family party, 'meaning' has interloped in discussions about work, organisations and management for some decades now – more frequently, it seems, as the 21st century unfolds. Its appearance provokes a few obvious questions. What is meaning in the context of work? Whom does it belong to? Why has meaning become relevant to the debate about the changing nature of work? This essay attempts to shed some light on these questions...

Stephen Overell (2008) The Work Foundation | Read full article...

Wellbeing Over Time

One thing that unites different kinds of social scientists is a concern to understand the forces that affect people's well-being. What makes individuals happy? What leads to happy societies? These are difficult questions, but they seem important...

David Blanchflower & Andrew Oswald (2002) Dartmouth College & NBER USA and Warwick University UK | Read full article...