How many of us are really happy at work? Not many at all, according to survey after survey.
Our advice is to first explore the pages relating to happiness. These contain a wealth of information, ideas, advice and links for those who wish to delve deeper into the happiness literature and resource base.
Next follow the navigation links to whichever of our other categories match your needs or aspirations.
Included on the site you’ll find the following topics:
- The meaning and pursuit of happiness
“In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.”
~John Ruskin
- Practical tips - ideas to put into action
“What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.” ~John Ruskin
- Thought leadership
“If I have seen farther than other men, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants.”
~Sir Isaac Newton
- Personal and career development
“If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.”
~Saint Augustine
- The healthy mind and body
“The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.”
~Harold Taylor
- Building a successful life
“The highest reward for man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.”
~John Ruskin
- Insights
“Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their jobs done.”
~Peter Drucker
What's New On The Happy Manager
What's new on The-Happy-Manager.com. Links to our new or updated pages, and to other sources of information.
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Happiness Articles: Free PDF Downloads
Free pdf downloads of some of our favourite happiness articles. Take the Happy Manager home with you!
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Free Problem Solving Tools
Use our free problem solving tools to help you become a happier manager. Then pass them on to, or use them with, your colleagues. For a happier workplace.
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Books On Happiness And Management
Books on happiness and management in the Happy Manager Bookshop. Our list of recommended books for happiness in the workplace.
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Goal Setting Information: Explore. Dream. Discover!
Interested in goal setting information for happier work and life choices? Spend some time to explore, dream and discover!
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Happiness Information For Managers
A guide to finding happiness information for managers and individuals
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Management Tips
Management tips is about putting ideas into action. Doing well as a manager is an important contributor to our happiness
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Happy Manager Resources And Links
A full list of manager resources and links used on the Happy Manager site, along with suggested further reading.
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Motivational Quotes
Motivational quotes can provide you with the inspiration to think, to act, or to simply to give yourself a lift. Enjoy this selection of quotes for home and the workplace.
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Motivational Stories For The Happy Manager
Motivational stories have the power to go where no business plan has ever been! In business, as in life, stories can stir the heart, capture the imagination and create the desire to act!
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Business Videos for the Busy Manager
Business videos - if a picture paints a thousand words, what can a moving picture do? Here we've assembled all of the video clips used on the Happy Manager.
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Project Management Basics: For When It's Not Your Day Job!
A guide to project management basics, for all managers
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Stress Management Information: For Happier Managers
Effective management is only possible if we’re can access stress management information. This enables us to understand and control the impact of stress, both on ourselves and on our colleagues.
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Thought Leadership: Management Portal
Thought leadership management portal - just as the longest journey begins with a single step, so can the most far reaching changes begin with a single thought
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Time Management Information
We are not short of time management information, yet many of us feel we don't have enough time. So take a fresh look at time because "until we manage time we can't manage anything else".
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Career Builders: Manage Your Development
Successful managers are career builders. They help you develop your knowledge and skills, applying these to achieve career and personal aims.
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Happy Manager Advanced Site Search
Advanced site search for information on happiness at work. Easily find what you're looking for by using this advanced search tool. Search only the Happy Manager or the whole internet.
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Contact Us
Contact us at the Happy Manager
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Site Map for the Happy Manager
A-Z and category site map for the Happy Manager - a better way to manage
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Best Management Tools Ever? - A Good Question
The best management tools are good questions. Why are questions so important, and how can we ask better questions?
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Career Builder: Building Your Own Education
A career builder article, encouraging mangers to think about using 3 vital principles for work-based learning:compelling insight; significant conversations; and putting learning to work
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Career Goal Setting: Nothing Great Was Ever Achieved Without Enthusiasm
Try to make enthusiasm central to your career goal setting. When properly developed and applied, an enthusiasm can get you a long way, especially one based on knowledge.
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Happiness Goal Setting Tip: Do What You Love
If we could offer one, single happiness goal setting tip, it would be "do what you love" - read our Happy Work-cycle for tips on how to be happy at work.
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Happiness Resources And Links
A full list of happiness resources and links used on the Happy Manager site, along with suggested further reading.
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Rate Your Happiness: Are You Happy?
Rate your happiness using the latest thinking in the field of positive psychology
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Manage Your Development Resources And Links
A list of manage your development resources and links supporting the Happy Manager site, along with suggested further reading.
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Management Resources And Links
A full list of management resources and links used on the Happy Manager site, along with suggested further reading.
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Project Management Model
A project management model for project management, when it isn't your day job
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Project Management Resources And Links
A full list of project management resources and links used on the Happy Manager site, along with suggested further reading.
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Stress Management And Relaxation: The Bigger Picture
There can be no doubting the link between stress management and relaxation. Taking time off work for recreation is essential if we’re to be healthy, happy managers. The trouble is....
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Stress Management Resources And Links
A list of stress management resources and links to support the Happy Manager site, along with suggested further reading.
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Stress Management Tip; Know When Enough Is Enough
Knowing when enough is enough is a stress management tip well worth considering
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Thought Leadership Resources And Links
A selected list of thought leadership resources and links completment the Happy Manager site, along with suggested further reading.
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Time Management at Work: Is Busyness Killing Business?
Time management at work has an enemy: Busyness. Eradicate busyness to release thetime and energy for real work.
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Time Management Resources And Links
A full list of time management resources and links used on the Happy Manager site, along with suggested further reading.
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Valuing a Good Manager? People Leave Managers Not Companies
What's the value of a Good Manager, if people leave managers not companies? How can you become a manager people really want to work with?
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What Great Managers Know: It's Obvious
What do great managers know? It should be obvious! Find out the five tests for an obvious idea
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Project Management Guidelines: Start With The End In Mind
What are the most important project management guidelines? Always start with the end in mind. How do you do that? Ask the right questions to ensure the project is properly defined.
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Business Goal Setting Using The F Plan
Six steps to a Business Goal Setting Strategy. Apply the future-focused Six Step F Plan
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Eight Ways to Happiness: Steps towards a More Satisfying Life
Eight Ways to Happiness. Recent work by psychologists points to ways to finding happiness
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Happiness Quotes
Searching for happiness quotes? Take a look at these influential quotations to answer five pressing questions about happiness.
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Elements Of Happiness: Six Happiness Tips
What are the elements of Happiness? Six tips based on Tal Ben Shahar's Six Happiness Tips and Martin Seligman's formula for happiness.
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Quotes On Time Management
Quotes on Time Management organised to answer questions such as "why does time management matter?", "why are we always short of time" and "how do you spend your time?"
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What Makes a Happy Company?Twelve Questions to Shape a Strong,Vibrant Workplace
What makes a happy company? Twelve questions to help build a happy workplace: discover what a strong, vibrant workplace looks like.
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What is Time Management? Take A Radical View Of Time
What is Time Management? We only use 20% of our time effectively. Take a radical view of time if you want to make a significant difference to how you use it.
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Peter Drucker Quotes: Wisdom From The Giant Of Giants
Searching for Peter Drucker Quotes? No management site would be complete without these essential quotes from the giant of management giants. Peter Drucker quotes: a better way to manage!
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The David Allen Time Management Approach: A Different View
David Allen Time Management: challenge conventional views of time management by asking - "why do people complain that there's no time to get their work done?"
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Benefits of Time Management: Begin With the End in Mind
Realising the benefits of time management? Begin with the end in mind and define success broadly, if you really want to reap the benefits of time management.
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Problem Solving Technique: 4 Steps to Improve Your Processes
Problem Solving Technique: 4 steps to improve your processes. Includes a free, downloadable management tool. For anybody who wants to improve their business or management processes.
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Problem Solving Activity: A Question Checklist to Investigate Problems
Problem Solving Activity: Develop your own question checklist for any problem using this tool.
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Manage Your Boss
Managing those we work with can at times be hard enough, but how do you manage your boss? Here we suggest 8 ways.
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Boss Time Management – 10 Ways To Help Protect Your Own Time!
"Boss Time Management": Having a boss who is a poor time manager can make any manager's work difficult. Here are 10 ways to help you protect your own time. For everybody's benefit!
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Goal Setting Leaders Put Their Legacies First
Goal setting leaders, like any true leaders, are inclined to look at the bigger picture. Is true success measured by what we have, or by what we leave behind?
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Personal Development Stories
Use personal development stories to add wisdom, wit, vision, colour, and fun to your personal development plan. Visit our growing collection of motivational and inspirational stories.
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Problem Solving Skill: Finding the Right Problems to Solve.
An understated problem solving skill is to see every problem as an opportunity, start by finding the right problems to solve. This tool will help.
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Career Change Advice: Make Your Interview Questions Count!
Here's some critical career change advice. When your interviewers give you the chance to ask questions, make them count!
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Leadership Stories
Leadership stories are arguably the most powerful of all business related stories. What better way to be inspired by the vision of good leaders than by their stories.
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Leadership Quotes
Leadership quotes: thought provoking, inspiring and challenging, our leadership quotes have been arranged around some key leadership themes.
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Elementary Goal Setting Tip – Make It Up and Make It Happen!
Want an elementary goal setting tip? David Allen provocatively suggests there are only two problems in life. Dealing with those is the first step to achieving your goals.
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The Success Principles - How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
Jack Canfield's "The Success Principles" is a classic self-help book: "become the happy, successful person you know you are meant to be - without burning out."
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The One Minute Manager
The One Minute Manager - already a classic applies simple but powerful ideas to management.
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First Break All The Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
First Break All the Rules: A radical look at what great managers do differently, Be prepared to have your management practice challenged!
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Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential
Authentic Happiness - how to achieve happiness through new and sustainable levels of authentic contentment, gratification, and meaning.
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Define Leadership Excellence? Easier Said Than Done!
Define leadership excellence? Tom Peters uses Dee Hock's ultra short PhD to illustrate his definition of leadership excellence.
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Success Quotes
Success quotes: great quotes to help you thinking differently about success. Thought provoking ideas from happiness to redefining success, and even "failing to succeed".
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Quotes on Success: What do Business Leaders say about success?
Quotes on success: insight from the best; what do business leaders say about their success?
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Quotes About Leadership Success: 3 Things Successful Leaders Have in "Common"
Quotes about Leadership Success: We look for a "common" thread in the quotes of Matsushita, Rockefeller and Handy.
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The Daily Drucker
The Daily Drucker - 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done
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80 20 Principle - The Secret of Achieving More with Less
The 80 20 Principle, by Richard Koch. What if we could all achieve a lot more by doing a lot less? Is this just wishful thinking or does Koch hold the secret to better use of time?
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More Quotes On Happiness
Looking for Quotes on Happiness? Enjoy and reflect on another selection of happiness quotes from the Happy Manager.
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Peter Drucker on the Profession of Management
Peter Drucker is widely regarded as the father of modern management. This book is a collection of his landmark Harvard Business Review articles. It's essential reading for all managers.
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The Hungry Spirit. Beyond Capitalism by Charles Handy
The Hungry Spirit by Charles Handy - can capitalism be made more decent? Can its instrument, business, work more obviously for the good of all, everywhere? A challenging and inspiring book.
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Characteristic of Leadership: Seeing Things Differently
Characteristic of Leadership. Seeing things differently is a characteristic of leadership, powerfully illustrated by two stories of two leaders - Tom Watson Jr. and Thomas Edison.
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Leadership Concept: Valuing Ideas
A key leadership concept is to ensure you place a high value on the ideas of others, ensuring you allow time to foster creativity. This story illustrates how one famous leader did just that.
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7 Habits of Highly Effective People
7 habits is a classic self-development book by Stephen Covey. If you want to take control of your own development, influence others, balance your priorties and build a purposeful life, start here!
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Good Leaders Learn From the Best
Good leaders learn from the best, Why? Because you can see further on the shoulders of giants. In the business world, the best thinkers are often afforded the label “guru”. But who are the best?
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Motivation in the Workplace: How Do You Define Your Work?
What's your motivation in the workplace? Would you define your work as a job or a calling? Here are two stories to show how you can make more out of your job,however you view it!
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Getting Things Done - how to achieve stress-free productivity.
Getting things done. Is work overwhelming you? Have you more to do than there is time in which to do it? Then read on! Maybe David Allen's deserved best seller can help.
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Finding Happiness In Life: Bowling But Not Alone
Fewer of us are finding happiness in life, yet it appears there is one single factor which, more than any other, can bring us happiness. In Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam makes the connection.
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
In his seminal book: Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam chronicles critical social changes in the US. He concludes we're becoming more disconnected from family, friends, and neighbours. Time to re-build?
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The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of The Learning Organisation
The Fifth Discipline popularised a whole new way of thinking about the way organisations function. Peter Senge's ideas still profer powerful challenges to this day.
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The Key Success Factor in Getting Things Done? Do it Now!
What would you say is the key success factor in getting things done? "It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish."
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The Happiness Hypothesis
The Happiness Hypothesis blends ancient wisdom with modern science: "superbly argued, crystal clear and intelligent.......and....reading it did actually make this reviewer happier."
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Develop Good Leadership Qualities by Learning from the Best .
How important is it to develop good leadership qualities by learning from the best? This our second article on gurus explores their value: why should we bother to learn from the gurus?
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Leading With Vision: Bridging the Gap.
Leading with vision requires foresight but do leaders also need to look elsewhere? Looking ahead is important but thinking about those who will follow is the sign of a great leader.....
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Importance of time management: Do We Value It?
The Importance of Time management? Time is the least considered, worst managed, and yet most valuable resource we have. Our problem with time? Do we really value it?
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