Happiness at work isn’t just a 'nice-to-have' – it's essential for success
Grounded in robust evidence and brought to life with real-world insights, Nic’s latest book offers a practical roadmap for building motivated team that work well together and achieve results. Whether you’re a leader or simply care about creating better workplaces, this is your invitation to take happiness seriously.
Happiness is a Serious Business
Reading this book will help you:
- Understand what happiness at work really looks like
- Boost happiness to improve team performance
- Lead in ways that build trust and wellbeing
- Avoid common mistakes that undermine team happiness
- Use practical strategies to build thriving, happy teams
If we want a better future, we must build happier workplaces. Nic Marks offers the science—and the soul—to make it real.
Everyone wants greater positive performance and happiness at work, this book actually provides an evidence-based, practical way to accomplish that in the modern working world.
Note from Nic: why I wrote a book
People often asked me what book do you recommend to read about happiness at work. I realised that there wasn’t one that I truly thought made the case, so I decided that I would have to write it myself!
This book captures everything I have learnt over the last 12 years and it shows that happiness at work isn’t just a ‘nice-to-have’ – it’s essential for success.
I hope you enjoy it (and find it useful).
The Happiness Manifesto
First published by TED books in 2012, it covers:
- Why Happiness and Wellbeing should be at the Centre of Public Policy
- Redefining Progress: wellbeing of nations
- Why Measurement Matters
- The Happy Planet Index
- Five Ways to Wellbeing
- Seven Strategies for National Wellbeing
Note from Nic: My next book?
My first book, The Happiness Manifesto, was focused on nations.
My second, Happiness is a Serious Business, on teams and organisations.
I have an idea for a third book about personal happiness, it working title is: Stuck in OK: how to avoid settling — and thrive by taking your happiness seriously