10
2010
Are you truly happy in the UK? GDP and Happiness Index?
An article by Edmond Antoine
Valerie Beyssade, co director of Team Global Network France, and I have a debate about using the word Happiness or Mindfulness, and I may have convinced myself more to choose the word Happiness….based on what the UK has recently decided to do. Let us know your opinion – what do both words evoke for you?
from Fortune Magazine December 9th – http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2010/12/09/the-happiness-index-is-the-uk – Eleanor Bloxham
../…So I applaud the UK for taking on the challenge of constructing a happiness or well-being index, rather than simply sticking with the hand-me-down measure of GDP. Going through the process of thinking through what should be included will yield at least half the benefit. Then, what they’ll have to guard against is the issue with all measures — making sure people remember what the metric is really measuring — and what it is not.
Eleanor Bloxham is CEO of The Value Alliance and Corporate Governance Alliance, a board advisory firm.
About the Author: Edmond Antoine
Edmond Antoine is an entrepreneur and ICF Master certified coach who has more than 25 years of experience managing business units and teams throughout the world. He has coached hundreds of people supporting them to produce greater results and new equilibriums. In 2010, he lead a Legacy Odyssey Trek in the Everest National Park, and coached a socially responsible entrepreneur in Newark, NJ. This moved him to create this blog in order to raise awareness and bring people from different walks of life together so they can invent new paradigms.
