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According to the professor, US Gallup Healthways have discovered that business owners are more content that everybody else, and she points out that it’s less stressful when you feel co-determined and define personal purpose in your work.
If you want a higher job satisfaction, you should initiate a new project which is beneficial to your job, industry, or workplace. Even if you’re not an entrepreneur or a business owner, there are ways to “set an agenda” and achieve valuable knowledge”, says Moss Kanter.
Source: Jyllands-Posten 24 January
Resources
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter is a professor at Harvard Business School, where she specialises in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change.
- Link: The article Top Ten Ways to Find Joy at Work can be found on Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s blog at the Harvard Business Review.
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter took several years, travelled the world conducting hundreds of interviews at notable enterprises, and came up with what is essentially a blueprint for any corporation to use to become a “Super Corp”, her latest book. The knowledge gained inspired her to write the article on how to achieve work satisfaction and joy at work.
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