April 2006
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Organizational culture and leadership
Saturday, April 29, 2006 · Topics: leadership, leadership-development, org-culture
by Edgar H. Schein. Whether they intend to or not, leaders play a crucial role in creating and manifesting an organizational culture’s capability of achieving its mission and goals. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary business realities, Schein defines culture and demonstrates the impact leaders have in forming culture in their own organizations. · Read more →
Jonathan Haidt: The Happiness Hypothesis
Friday, April 28, 2006 · Topics: happiness, lessons-learned, positive-emotions, positive-psychology, virtue
by Jonathan Haidt. This is a book about ten great ideas. Each chapter is an attempt to savor one idea that has been discovered by several of the world’s civilizations — to question it in light of what we now know from scientific research, and to extract from it the lessons that still apply to our modern lives… It is a book about how to construct a life of virtue, happiness, fulfillment, and meaning. · Read more →
Guy Kawasaki: The 120 day wonder: How to evangelize a blog
Wednesday, April 26, 2006 · Topics: blog-resources
Leadership on the Line
Tuesday, April 25, 2006 · Topics: adaptive-leadership, leadership, leadership-development
Ronald A. Heifetz and Marty Linksy provide an approach to “adaptive leadership,” meaning those situations for which there are no predetermined answers and rules for engagement. · Read more →
3-minute egg
Monday, April 17, 2006 · Topics: creativity, innovation
Practical suggestions about thinking creatively. Published every month, on the first day of the month by Crown Point Press in San Francisco, printers and publishers of fine art limited edition etchings and
woodcuts.
The April edition is about carving out time for art. Watch the video.
Ed Diener
Saturday, April 8, 2006 · Topics: positive-emotions
research on subjective well-being, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · Go to Ed Diener →
World Database of Happiness
Saturday, April 8, 2006 · Topics: positive-emotions
ongoing register of scientific research on subjective appreciation of life. It brings together findings that are scattered throughout many studies and provides a basis for synthetic studies. · Go to World Database of Happiness →
International Personality Item Pool
Saturday, April 8, 2006 · Topics: positive-emotions
provides rapid access to measures of individual differences, all in the public domain · Go to International Personality Item Pool →
