Author: Matthew Ferry
Originally posted August 25th, 2011 Happiness is not only good for your health, according to a study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences but apparently, it’s good for business too. In his Harvard Business Review article, Shawn Achor sites that happy doctors diagnose 19% faster and happy salespeople increase sales by 37%. He goes on to say, “Happiness is the single greatest competitive advantage in the modern economy.”Over the last 17 years, I’ve seen dramatic business turn-arounds occur in as little as a week. The only change being an increase in a person’s happiness. The results…