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  • Freedom to Be Happy: The Business Case for Happiness

  • Happiness and Humans, Book 1
  • By: Matthew Phelan
  • Narrated by: Matthew Phelan
  • Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins

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Freedom to Be Happy: The Business Case for Happiness

By: Matthew Phelan
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Publisher's Summary

Freedom to Be Happy explores the association between individual happiness and group performance at work. The book introduces happiness philosophers, reviews the evidence, and interviews practitioners on the frontline who are building thriving work cultures.

The book uses data, neuroscience, quantum physics, and academic research in a really accessible, unique, fun, and human way.

Subjects include money and happiness, motivation, happiness, HR, marketing, employee happiness, happiness philosophy, the Stoics, the history of happiness, employee engagement, diversity and inclusion, equality, and the future of work.

Research interviews for this book are live on the Happiness and Humans podcast.

The objective of this book is to empower the listener to make a very strong case that the happiness of human beings is a very serious business metric.

Chapters

  1. Why happiness?
  2. What is happiness?
  3. Can money make you happy?
  4. Is happiness nature or nurture?
  5. Is happiness a fluffy metric?
  6. Discovering happiness
  7. Scaling happiness
  8. Happiness biology and chemistry
  9. Happiness practical tips
  10. Happiness at work: contemporary philosophy and evidence
  11. Employee happiness: research and evidence
  12. Happiness: practitioners and evidence
  13. The Happiness Index data
  14. Happiness across the globe
  15. The neuroscience of happiness
  16. Introducing the quantum way
  17. Freedom to be happy: the business case for happiness
  18. The Happiness and Humans Community Charter
©2020 Matthew Phelan (P)2021 Matthew Phelan

Critic Reviews

"Matt is a rare talent. Truly putting happiness at the forefront of everything he does, be it work and play, demonstrates why he is such an outlier. His focus on the importance of human happiness backed up by neuroscience helps people untap the very best in themselves and their companies. I love partnering with Matt for that very reason – a true beacon of light for all aspiring and established CEOs, team leaders and employees alike." (Nicola Pearcey, president of UK and Europe Lionsgate)

"Matt is an authentic human who calls it as it is and is super curious. He endeavours to make big ripples of change and challenge the established ways of thinking and social norms. He helps to ensure everyone is informed, updated and thinking two steps ahead. I know this book will help us all to challenge our thinking around workplace engagement. Well done Matt!" (Margot Slattery, Sodexo global chief diversity and inclusion officer)

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