The Happy Secret To Better Work Analysis

The biggest and best companies are the ones who are seen as the most successful. To see success, a business needs to not only have a product that people desire, but reason behind developing their given product. Companies such as Apple and Google are revolutionary not only because they make great products, but they have purpose and reason in developing these products. When you have those who are happily motivated and ready to share their ideas, the workplace becomes a more motivation environment and companies are able to flourish with success.
In Shawn Achor’s “The Happy Secret to Better Work”, Achor discusses several different tangibles that many strive to obtain as they believe this is the way to achieve happiness. Achor mentions how this …show more content…
Sinek points out a specific few companies that are well known to be successful today, such as Apple. They are innovative and people want to buy their products because it is usually the “next best thing”. Those who oversee Apple have a vision, and always want to share their vision. Their goal is to always strive to have the best product out on the market. The engineers and scientists can follow their words and become inspired, which then leads to the visions of the products becoming reality. Achor builds off this point as he mentions how the workplaces efficiency is increased when the workers are happy in the present. The happier that the workers are, the better their minds will think and produce results. Leaders can help inspire this, which is why the best companies have the strongest …show more content…
It is pretty easy to explain why people are on a basketball team; they want to play basketball. The reason I played, I wanted to be successful, and I also wanted my teammates to be successful. It could have been very easy to just go out and play, but I wanted to have a purpose when playing. At practices, I would give my all even though it was hard. I pushed my other teammates to give their all as well. I was able to inspire them by sharing my goals and they quickly became our goals. Having a negative mentality was very short lived if it ever showed up on our team. After a few missed shots in a drill, it is easy to bring yourself down and start to believe you are terrible. However, with some encouragement from other teammates, it is easy to pick yourself up and get back on track. With my leadership, I helped fuel our team’s positivity, which also help us reach our goals and be