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Happiness (HBR Emotional Intelligence)
Harvard Business Review · 2020
🎙 Narrated by Daniel Henning and Rachel Perry
63/100
👎 Skip It
This is a grab-bag of solid HBR articles on workplace happiness — small wins, why burnout isn't just the absence of good feelings — useful if you're specifically wrestling with office culture. But as a standalone listen it's too narrow and disjointed to recommend broadly, and no amount of clean narration gives it a throughline it doesn't have.
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🎙 Narration: fine Narrated by Daniel Henning and Rachel Perry; competent series-standard delivery, no notable critique found.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety85
Substance / usefulness65
Craft & writing62
Originality50
Evidence & accuracy78
Hype vs delivers55
Age-fit70
Human-eye read60
Penny’s verdict63
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