Appreciation is a wonderful thing

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[Doug]

Reading Rosa's "Mahalo" story brought to mind a book that I heard about recently titled "How Full Is Your Bucket"

Here is an excerpt from the web site for it:

"Welcome to the official Web site of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Business Week national bestseller, How Full Is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life -- a book that uses a simple metaphor about a dipper and a bucket and decades of research to show how even the briefest interactions affect your relationships, productivity, health, and longevity."

I haven't read it yet, but apparently it is based on research by The Gallup Organization. Co-author Donald Clifton and his colleagues argue that many American workers are are presently "actively disengaged," or extremely negative in their workplace and that this disengagement costs the U.S. economy up to $300 billion dollars a year in productivity.

Productivity aside, I am amazed sometimes at the absence of positive feelings among employees in our workplaces. If work is not a source of positive psychological and emotional reward for people (perhaps that was a myth and it never was anyway), then the only source of positive feelings lie in the people you work with and your relationships with them.

Perhaps it is time to look more closely at social reward systems and approaches to get people more activel engaged in our workplaces...perhaps it is time to bring back the "Mahalo" to our workplaces.

[Doug]

Just wanted to add one more thought to my last post...by bringing more "Mahalo" into our workplaces, we make them more "sociable".

So, the challenge is how to create more "sociable workplaces".