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...workers. A study by Towers Perrin of 40 multinationals over three years found that companies with high engagement scores had operating margins that were 5.75 percentage points greater than those of low-engagement companies; net profit margins were 3.44 percentage points more. "The organizations that have cracked the code understand we're not just doing this to be nice; we're doing this for business reasons," says Max Caldwell, a managing principal at Towers Perrin, who with managing director Julie Gebauer runs the firm's Workplace Effectiveness group...
...same, he presided over an era when Spanish painting was moving, sometimes spectacularly, into the golden age that it fully arrived at after his death. You understand that right away from the thunderclap that is the first gallery of "El Greco to Vel�zquez: Art During the Reign of Philip III," which has just opened at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston. There are five fierce El Grecos in that room, all humming in his high, mad register. Spain may have been adrift, but its art was advancing nicely--and advancing into territory where you might not have...
...WEARTHERMAN WAS WRONG Unfortunately, finding happiness is much more difficult than people realize. In “Stumbling,” Gilbert writes that because we do not understand our own minds, we often make errors in “affective forecasting,” or predicting our future emotional states. People want to be happy, but because they can’t accurately foresee what will make them happy, they strive for things that do not, in the end, satisfy them...
...What Dan did with ‘Stumbling on Happiness,’ which was so amazing and impressive from a researcher’s standpoint, is he took 20 years of complicated psychology and distilled it down into things a layman could really understand,” she says. “His book is so powerful because he has the amazing ability to generate the most outlandish and creative ideas to explain the concept he’s trying to get across...
...plastic bags was passed in March 2007 in order to stop consumers from making the wrong choice for the environment. But those responsible for the ban didn’t seem to quite understand what that meant: “We’re not taking away any choices,” said Mark Westlund of the San Francisco Environmental Department. Pressed, he switched from denial to paternalism: “We’ve taken away a choice that is a detrimental choice...