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Happiness (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)
Harvard Business Review, Daniel Gilbert, Annie McKee, Gretchen Spreitzer & Teresa Amabile · 2017
71/100
👍 Worth It
A solid collection if you're thinking about happiness through a work lens, with credentialed contributors and a genuinely useful chapter pushing back on happiness hype. It's a bit uneven since it's stitched together from separate articles rather than one throughline. Still, it fills a real gap for workplace-minded readers.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety90
Substance / usefulness70
Craft & writing68
Originality60
Evidence & accuracy78
Hype vs delivers65
Age-fit75
Human-eye read68
Penny’s verdict71
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