Dolan: Each person needs 2 find the balance btwn being a "pleasure machine" & a "purpose engine." #gdaw2014
RT @nickyruneckles: Prof Paul Dolan @HappinessBD talking about importance of purpose and the stories we tell ourselves #GDAW2014 https://twitter.com/nickyru...
Dolan: When you examine experiences (rather than the stories we tell abt those experiences), we tend 2 get better data. #gdaw2014
Dolan: The stories we tell don't always align with our actual experiences. #gdaw2014
Dolan: "Much of what we do is lived in stories." #storytelling #gdaw2014
Dolan: Rather than asking ppl "how satisfied R U w/ life?" Examine their experiences. #gdaw2014
Professor Paul Dolan (London School of Economics) wrote Happiness by Design http://www.amazon.com/Happine... #gdaw2014
Lammy: unless we take the well-being agenda more seriously, we will see more fractured politics & fringe elements. #gdaw2014
Lammy: Well-being includes city planning. We don't need another high-rise. We need 2 create spaces in which ppl want 2 live. #gdaw2014
Lammy: We need to stop & reflect. We need more mindfulness. This allows us 2 refocus & recommit. #gdaw2014
Lammy: Well-being is not just abt our GDP, our productivity. We also need 2 look @ our personal physical/mental health. #gdaw2014
Lammy: the average age of a person buying a house in London last year = 39. With this trajectory, the average age will B 52 soon. #gdaw2014
Lammy: We now face w/ the consequences of the social liberal revolution of the 1960s & economic liberal revolution of the 1980s. #gdaw2014
Lammy chairs the All Party group on well-being economics & leads the parliamentary perspective on national well-being. #gdaw2014
Next: Keynotes by Rt. Hon David Lammy (MP) & Professor Paul Dolan -- Well-being: a national & economic imperative #gdaw2014
This ground-up, personal approach provides very different insights from the top-down aerial approach 2 mgmt. @juliahobsbawm #gdaw2014
The time spent looking into someone'e eyes & asking them what they think is going on can B really illuminating. @juliahobsbawm #gdaw2014
RT @katie_jacobs: Social health is who you know, what you know & how you create strategies to let that flow through the organisation #gdaw2014
The socially healthy individual or organization wants 2 listen, learn, help & ask 4 help all the time. @juliahobsbawm /cc @Broadli #gdaw2014
You don't need 2 B an extrovert 2 B a gd networker. You can B a knowledge broker w/in yr network. @juliahobsbawm #gdaw2014
"Americans have colonized networking. I would like 2 claim it back for the British." @juliahobsbawm #gdaw2014
It's impt 2 understand the behavior of networks in order 2 understand how 2 mimic productive networks. @juliahobsbawm #gdaw2014
RT @katie_jacobs: .@juliahobsbawm Networking isn't about walking into a room full of strangers, small groups of trusted contacts are what matter #GDAW2014
"There is no easy way 2 walk into a roomful of strangers. That's why networking is awkward." @juliahobsbawm /cc @Broadli #gdaw2014
Citing @ValdisKrebs: organizations needs 2 operate like jazz ensembles = teamwork + experimentation. @juliahobsbawm #gdaw2014
The new collaborative era is upon us. We can no longer do important work by ourselves. We need teams/networks. @juliahobsbawm #gdaw2014
We need skills 2 cope w/ overload. And we need skills (& the right conditions) 2 become better connected/networked. @juliahobsbawm #gdaw2014
Each overloaded person needs navigation, strategy & curation help to cope with the overload. @juliahobsbawm #gdaw2014
The siloed worker & the not-employeed R very isolated. However, connectedness is highly correlated w/ productivity. @juliahobsbawm #gdaw2014
The ppl who need the most help w/ connectedness R the corporate worker who is highly siloed & the not-yet-employed. @juliahobsbawm #gdaw2014
"Connectedness" is not abt transactional networking, it's abt something more profound. @juliahobsbawm #gdaw2014