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Martyn Newman, author of Emotional Capitalists: The New Leaders, likes to quote Homer Simpson when he talks about the role of positive emotions in the workplace: "Today, if adults don't like their jobs, they don't quit. They just go in every day and do it half-assed." 
 
Emotional capital matters to productivity, it matters to turnover, it matters to profit. We know this. But you can't work it backwards; you can't fix turnover to fix your emotional capital issue. You can't make people more fulfilled by demanding they be more productive (often, quite the opposite...).

In other words, you can't just work on being great and assume good will automatically follow. 
 
Greatness is a state of being. Goodness is a daily choice.
 

From the blog...

Why “Culture” is not just another business fad

 

This was a rather flippant cartoon I drew yesterday in my notebook, that actually makes a serious point about our business model, namely:

1. Now that the ideas of “job for life” and “work-life balance” are well and truly consigned to the dustbin of history…

2. Now that we’re expected to answer work emails at 11pm on Christmas Eve…

3. Now that we’re expected to fly to Chicago in February, so we can get up at 6a.m. in time for a breakfast meeting and talk about nothing for five hours [This actually happened recently to a Geneva-based friend of mine]…

4. Now that instead of getting business cards printed up like a normal person... [READ MORE]
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