Managers Should Optimize Job Satisfaction, Not Happiness
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Lord, grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Happiness was not the goal, satisfaction was the goal, as it still is. - Lydia Lunch Managers should be optimizing people’s job satisfaction, not their happiness. Trying to make a job facilitate happiness leads to perverse incentives and unattainable goals. It’s at best a distraction. At its worst it causes teams and companies to fall apart.
Managers Should Optimize Job Satisfaction, Not Happiness
Managers Should Optimize Job Satisfaction…
Managers Should Optimize Job Satisfaction, Not Happiness
Lord, grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Happiness was not the goal, satisfaction was the goal, as it still is. - Lydia Lunch Managers should be optimizing people’s job satisfaction, not their happiness. Trying to make a job facilitate happiness leads to perverse incentives and unattainable goals. It’s at best a distraction. At its worst it causes teams and companies to fall apart.