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Stronger together: Building employee-employer bonds

Meaningful work and commercial profit can seem at odds, with corporate incentives usually winning out. However, as Daniel Goodenough explains, business needs to focus on helping employees cultivate their sense of purpose in this world

Lisa Miller, professor of clinical psychology at Columbia University, uses the term, dysthymia to describe what she calls “the low grade feeling that life is unfulfilling.” In her book The Awakened Brain, Miller maintains that this feeling affects well-adjusted high achievers, who have this sentence running in their heads: “If I can just make it through x, y, z, then I can advance, then I can rest, then I can be happy.”

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