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Dolan: Each person needs 2 find the balance btwn being a "pleasure machine" & a "purpose engine."
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Nov 12, 2014
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RT @
nickyruneckles
: Prof Paul Dolan @
HappinessBD
talking about importance of purpose and the stories we tell ourselves
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https://twitter.com/nickyru...
Nov 12, 2014
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Dolan: When you examine experiences (rather than the stories we tell abt those experiences), we tend 2 get better data.
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Nov 12, 2014
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Dolan: The stories we tell don't always align with our actual experiences.
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Nov 12, 2014
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Dolan: "Much of what we do is lived in stories."
#storytelling
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Nov 12, 2014
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Dolan: Rather than asking ppl "how satisfied R U w/ life?" Examine their experiences.
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Nov 12, 2014
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Professor Paul Dolan (London School of Economics) wrote Happiness by Design
http://www.amazon.com/Happine...
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Nov 12, 2014
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Lammy: unless we take the well-being agenda more seriously, we will see more fractured politics & fringe elements.
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Nov 12, 2014
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Lammy: Well-being includes city planning. We don't need another high-rise. We need 2 create spaces in which ppl want 2 live.
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Nov 12, 2014
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Lammy: We need to stop & reflect. We need more mindfulness. This allows us 2 refocus & recommit.
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Nov 12, 2014
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Lammy: Well-being is not just abt our GDP, our productivity. We also need 2 look @ our personal physical/mental health.
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Nov 12, 2014
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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.
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Nov 12, 2014
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Lammy: We now face w/ the consequences of the social liberal revolution of the 1960s & economic liberal revolution of the 1980s.
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Nov 12, 2014
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Lammy chairs the All Party group on well-being economics & leads the parliamentary perspective on national well-being.
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Nov 12, 2014
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Next: Keynotes by Rt. Hon David Lammy (MP) & Professor Paul Dolan -- Well-being: a national & economic imperative
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Nov 12, 2014
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This ground-up, personal approach provides very different insights from the top-down aerial approach 2 mgmt. @
juliahobsbawm
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Nov 12, 2014
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The time spent looking into someone'e eyes & asking them what they think is going on can B really illuminating. @
juliahobsbawm
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Nov 12, 2014
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RT @
katie_jacobs
: Social health is who you know, what you know & how you create strategies to let that flow through the organisation
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Nov 12, 2014
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The socially healthy individual or organization wants 2 listen, learn, help & ask 4 help all the time. @
juliahobsbawm
/cc @
Broadli
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Nov 12, 2014
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You don't need 2 B an extrovert 2 B a gd networker. You can B a knowledge broker w/in yr network. @
juliahobsbawm
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Nov 12, 2014
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"Americans have colonized networking. I would like 2 claim it back for the British." @
juliahobsbawm
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Nov 12, 2014
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More from @
juliahobsbawm
: her Radio 4 series
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediace...
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Nov 12, 2014
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V Mary Abraham
It's impt 2 understand the behavior of networks in order 2 understand how 2 mimic productive networks. @
juliahobsbawm
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Nov 12, 2014
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RT @
katie_jacobs
: .@juliahobsbawm Networking isn't about walking into a room full of strangers, small groups of trusted contacts are what matter
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Nov 12, 2014
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"There is no easy way 2 walk into a roomful of strangers. That's why networking is awkward." @
juliahobsbawm
/cc @
Broadli
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Nov 12, 2014
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Citing @
ValdisKrebs
: organizations needs 2 operate like jazz ensembles = teamwork + experimentation. @
juliahobsbawm
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Nov 12, 2014
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The new collaborative era is upon us. We can no longer do important work by ourselves. We need teams/networks. @
juliahobsbawm
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Nov 12, 2014
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We need skills 2 cope w/ overload. And we need skills (& the right conditions) 2 become better connected/networked. @
juliahobsbawm
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Nov 12, 2014
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Each overloaded person needs navigation, strategy & curation help to cope with the overload. @
juliahobsbawm
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Nov 12, 2014
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The siloed worker & the not-employeed R very isolated. However, connectedness is highly correlated w/ productivity. @
juliahobsbawm
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Nov 12, 2014
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The ppl who need the most help w/ connectedness R the corporate worker who is highly siloed & the not-yet-employed. @
juliahobsbawm
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Nov 12, 2014
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"Connectedness" is not abt transactional networking, it's abt something more profound. @
juliahobsbawm
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Nov 12, 2014
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