My favorite books about happiness at work

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8 responses to “My favorite books about happiness at work”

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   January 3, 2007

   Graham Lawes

   Did you read Semler’s book, Maverick? I like this even more than The Seven-Day Weekend.

   I read your book and I was delighted to find references to Seligman and Peter Block. Peter Block’s book, Stewardship, influenced several people including Dennis Bakke at AES (Joy at Work).

   I intend to follow up on some of your other references. This is a great list!

   Graham
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   January 3, 2007

   Alexander

   Hi Graham. I have read Maverick – it’s excellent too! I prefer Seven-Day because it was written ten years later and contains even more practical experiences and ideas.

   Peter Block is a great thinker – I had the pleasure of meeting him once and he’s also a very nice person!

   Please go wild with the books on the list, you can’t go wrong with any of them.
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   January 4, 2007

   Ron

   Wonderful to see Peter Block, Robert Wright, Ricardo Semler, Marty Seligman, and the too often-overlooked Alfie Kohn on one list. Non-zero is one of my all time favorites and Layard’s Happiness was a great read in 2006.

   You may want to look at Csikszentmihalyi’s Finding Flow. Flow itself is a classic.

   I’ll look for Block’s title (this one had escaped by attention) and Gallwey’s book. Thanks for the list (and for plowing through what I’m sure was a lot of ho-hum titles to find these gems).

   Have a great 2007! The world needs more happy work places.
4. 

   January 4, 2007

   Alexander

   Thanks Ron. I enjoyed both Flow and Finding Flow – the only reason I don’t include them on this list is that I’m a little sceptical of the notion of flow as a way to make people happy. Block is always worth a read and Gallwey’s book is particularly interesting!

   I wish you a spectacular 2007 as well!

   Btw: I took a look at your blog. It rocks!
5. January 10, 2007

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6. 

   January 19, 2007

   Erno Mijland

   I am reading Daniel Gilberts ‘Stumbling on happiness’ at the moment, which gives an insight in research on this fuzzy concept of ‘happiness’. Fun reading with lots of scientific backgrounds.
7. 

   January 29, 2007

   Alexander

   Thanks for the tip Erno – that one goes on my to-read list.
8. 

   August 27, 2012

   Mona

   Hello Alex,
   I found your name and link through my studies of RTCT, Dr. William Glasser’s work called Reality Therapy and Choice Theory. While his writings do not directly address the work field, it find it very important to learn especially about his theory, since it explains a lot as to how and why people, and that of course includes me, behave. It changed my life very much and being German I always need to know some of the ‘Whys” behind what I do, think, and feel.
   Also starting to read your great book online, knowing Choice Theory gives me an understanding which is different from reading the book without knowing Choice Theory.. Again while your book is for the work place, it gave me some good inspirations to use in caounseling, parenting and other areas, and I think that is what makes the difference between a book and a good book.

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