I’m a sucker for ideas that challenge the standard thinking about business. I feel very much as if modern business doesn’t care about creativity or innovation or passion but rather could be happy with predictable mediocrity. Unfortunately, I think that its us, the workers, who suffer in corporate mediocrity – I think such environments crush the human soul.

So it was with great excitement that I found the blog Positive Sharing, the website of an author on workplace happiness. Over and over again this author shows that everything that companies want (more productivity, better quality effort) comes from simply trying to make employees happy. This doesn’t mean that employees work at massage tables. Such assumptions, when talking about workplace happiness, show a bias against workers that presumes that we are naturally lazy and need to be managed into productivity.

Rather, the presumption is that the employees that the company has hired have something to offer (and really want to do it!). It extends that presumption in a number of different ways and shows how thinking a bit differently will lead to hugely positive results for all involved.

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