Quantum Leaps by Proud Teams
Quantum leaps by proud teams: In Barometer of Joy 2016 we went the pride in winning teams on the ground. In collaboration with the Wiesbaden Business School we surveyed some 100 members of professional teams. If a whole team cheers about his great success – what could be better. How proud does it. All love to […]
Experience Your Own Happiness
Imagine, you’re a marmot. What would be your greatest joy? In these weeks, you still rest in your hibernation in the underground. But in a few weeks time will come: The first moment again on the earth, you blink in the sun, sucking a cool, fresh air of spring, join the first fresh gras. A […]
Digital Revolution – Europe needs Willingness to Take Risks and Fault Tolerance
Steve Jobs had it easier than the Swiss entrepreneur Alfred Escher – said Lino Guzzella, President of ETH Zurich. The larger the market and the more optimistic attitude towards innovation in the US result in the local world successes with the digital revolution. Lino Guzzella formulated a farsighted, encouraging focus on the future for Switzerland […]
UN Human Development Report 2015
European countries have hit the jackpot: Six of them are at the top ten of the UN Human Development Report 2015 – as for many years in a row: Norway, Switzerland, Denmark, The Netherlands, Germany, Ireland. The leading group also includes North American and Australian countries. We can be so happy and grateful about living […]
Income and Happiness – Nobel Prize for Economics and Happiness Research
Angus Deaton will be honored with the Nobel Prize in Economic Science 2015. His outstanding research combines economic theory and measurable behaviour of all day live in a inspiring way. His main field is the econmic context of happiness. He found out together with Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman the surprising: money is important for our […]
„Happiness is having the feel of life in your bones…“
„Happiness is something you must work for and is not got easily. It is having the feel of life in your bones…“ The quota is the conclusion of Sandy McHugh research about the changes of the perception of happiness between 1938 and 2014 in Bolton, Great Britain. What is happiness 1938 and 2014? When basic […]
The Golden Rule for Leadership
Starting point for the happiness research is the insight that although we need some degree in material, however, more and more material does not make us happier. Some degree is unquestionably important and necessary to satisfy the (reason) needs and to win financial security. The happiness research points to the fact that it depends above […]
The Changing Nature of Happiness
„What makes you happy?“ asked Sandie McHugh and Jerome Carson, University of Bolton, United Kingdom, in the same way, as Mass Observation did in their famous study in Bolton nearly 80 years before. The surprising results: In 1938 security, knowledge and religion were seen as being the three most important aspects of happiness. In 2014 […]
Participation
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead THANK you for your wonderful participation in the Connect Worlds BAROMETER Of JOY. What a chance to influence our perspectives. Worldwide. Be curious about the results. They will be presented […]
The Countdown is running…
The Connect Worlds Barometer of Joy: Please take part up to and including Wednesday, 27 May 2015. Take the survey. THANK you!
