Interview

It is my great pleasure to interview Caroline Adams Miller, who spends her life helping people set and pursue the goals that lead to significant accomplishment. The first part of the interview focuses on how to set goals that drive outstanding performance. Monday I will return with her comments about how to pursue lofty goals.

There is a lot of compelling evidence across industries, continents, and sectors that positive and virtuous practices pay off. Organizations make more money, are more productive, achieve higher quality, produce higher customer satisfaction, and create higher employee engagement. Moreover, evidence suggests that these relationships are causal. When virtuous practices improve, organizational outcomes improve as well.

How do we transcend self-interest and contribute to the greater good of our own communities? I recently had the opportunity to speak with Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind and newly appointed professor of ethical leadership at the NYU Stern School of Business. I asked him for practical ways I could apply his Moral …

Sha-en Yeo is a 2011 MAPP graduate who lives in Singapore. To bring a perspective from another part of the world, I interviewed Sha-en on her work in positive education, where she has been inspired to think of innovative ways of delivering the research in digestible pieces as well as ways to make people experience …

I recently interviewed Robert Biswas-Diener, author of the new book book, The Courage Quotient. We explored courage, strengths, self-doubt, and the future of positive psychology. My first question came from my 10-year-old, who wanted to know, “How do you measure courage? What would be a unit of courage?”

This week marks the third annual Sustainable Cleveland 2019, an Appreciative Inquiry (AI) summit led by David Cooperrider for the city of Cleveland. I had the opportunity to interview one of the participants, Louis Alloro, who is also involved in SOMO Leadership, a business that emerged from the first Sustainable Cleveland conference held in 2009.

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China’s rise in the global community generates widespread uncertainty at home and abroad. Chinese fiscal expansion has already fundamentally changed the nature of the world’s economy. All of our futures are intimately linked to what happens there. The recent contributions of Yukun Zhao and Timothy So to Positive Psychology are important to the improvement of …

Todd: I have always been an anxiety researcher, especially about social anxiety. Then I started seeing people who had energizing and profoundly meaningful social interactions. When I asked about their motivations, what kept arising was “I felt interested” or “I was curious.”

Barbara Heileman and Jan Elsner have been practitioners of positive psychology in business contexts in Australia for several years. When I asked, “What is the most burning thing you want to share with us?” their response concerned effective ways of measuring outcomes in terms that are organizationally relevant to business.