Interesting piece on Yahoo! Finance – Freedom More Important to Well-Being Than Money – about a recent study by Ronald Fischer and Diana Boer of Victoria University of Wellington in Wellington, New Zealand in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology called: What Is More Important for National Well-Being: Money or Autonomy? A Meta-Analysis of Well-Being, Burnout, and Anxiety Across 63 Societies.
They found that on a national level, individualism and autonomy are more important to well-being than money. As you are evaluating your personal reinvention, or the reinvention of your staff members and colleagues, consider how you can incorporate more autonomy.
Countries scoring high in autonomy had less stress, less burnout, less mental health problems and so on.
Ronald Fischer School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, NZ
