Can money buy happiness? 60% of Americans say yes — and the price tag is $1.2 million | Want to Be a Better Leader? Start Studying Bad Ones | Why Doctors and Pharmacists Are in Revolt | Why Watch Hot Air Balloons When You Can Chase Them?

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� � � � � � Can money buy happiness? 60% of Americans say yes â€" and the price tag is $1.2 million - CNBC    At a time when many households feel financially strained, some say you can put a price on happiness. And that number is $1.2 million. According to Empower's Financial Happiness report, 60% of Americans said money can buy happiness and achieving a certain net worth is key to contentment. With record high credit card debt, a declining personal savings rate and more than half of adults living paycheck to paycheck, Americans now say they would need to earn $284,167 a year to be happy, the Empower report found. Continued here � � � � � � Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium Want to Be a Better Leader? Start Studying Bad Ones - Inc.com    You want to be a better leader, so you dive into the pool of best practices, reading articles about leadership, working with mentors, and even taking leadership training courses. But is this the best way to become a better leader? I'd argue it's incomplete. A business owner, I worked for had a unique leadership method for motivating employees. At the beginning of each day, he'd approach me at my desk and remind me that I was completely dispensable, could be fired anytime, and that I should be grateful for even having a job. While this might be shocking, it was an important experience to mentally catalog and help shape my own leadership approach, which is very much the opposite of his style. When examining the best, you overlook the antithesis. Every coin has two sides, and often you can learn more from what doesn't work than from what works. Examining what doesn't work helps you understand better why something works, providing insight into the deeper reasons and mechanisms that generate positive outcomes. Continued here � � � � � � Why Doctors and Pharmacists Are in Revolt -     Once accustomed to a status outside the usual management-labor hierarchy, many health professionals now feel as put upon as any clock-punching worker. When Dr. John Wust, an obstetrician at Allina, and his colleagues voted to unionize in March, they were one of the largest groups of private-sector doctors ever to do so.Credit...Jenn Ackerman for The New York Times Noam Scheiber has been writing about working conditions for doctors and other professionals since 2015. Continued here � � � � � � Why Watch Hot Air Balloons When You Can Chase Them? -     Millions of visitors flock to about 200 balloon festivals across the U.S. each year. Volunteering on balloon crews lets some of those fans pursue the inflatable dream. The Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta in October drew nearly 970,000 people and hundreds of pilots, who rely on volunteer crew members to help with a number of crucial tasks, including setting up, chasing the balloon to its landing site and packing it up for the next flight.Credit...Andrew Jogi for The New York Times Steven Moity joined balloon crews at festivals in Albuquerque and the Adirondacks, where he took his first hot air balloon ride this fall. Continued here

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