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Attributions: Explaining Our Own Behavior

November 27, 2009 4 Comments
Attributions: Explaining Our Own Behavior

  In this video, I discuss an attribution process we use to explain our own behavior. This is an abbreviated version of explanatory style that I got from Martin Seligman’s book Learned Optimism, which I recommend highly. When we look to explain our own behavior, once again we try to determine if it was something [...]

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Engagement Soup

August 21, 2009 26 Comments
Engagement Soup

Is optimism a competitive advantage? The link between a company’s employee engagement is real: the more engaged the workers, the higher the sales and profits…. Companies don’t directly measure the optimism of their employees. Instead they rely on engagement scores, typically gathered by outside consultants who exhaustively survey the staff. As in: Does your boss [...]

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The How of Happiness: My Interview with Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky

August 15, 2009 5 Comments
The How of Happiness: My Interview with Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky

Sonja Lyubomirsky, Ph.D. is the author of the book  The How of Happiness . She is a Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside.  Her research has been written up in dozens of magazines and newspapers and she has appeared in multiple TV shows, radio shows, and feature documentaries in North America and [...]

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Optimism: Too Much of a Good Thing for Entrepreneurs?

July 4, 2009 12 Comments
Optimism: Too Much of a Good Thing for Entrepreneurs?

The core theme of my blog is positive organizational behavior (POB), and optimism is considered one of the cornerstones of POB.  To be optimistic means one generally expects to experience positive outcomes.  Optimism is usually considered a personality trait, which means that in adults it is pretty stable. Optimism is good stuff.  Optimistic folks in [...]

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