Better

We are in the midst of a wellbeing revolution: natural foods,alternative therapies, meditation and more. Some enlightened businesses –stretched to the limit with stress and competing for the best talent – havetaken wellbeing on board. What started as a few HR reforms at companies likeGoogle is now changing our view of what a business is, and what it is for. 

Business used to labour under the mistaken idea that companies arelike mechanisms, and it is all about financial results. But in the last fewdecades an alternative worldview moved in from the innovative fringes, thatsees business fundamentally as a living human system. Wellbeing is 80 per centsocial. That’s why this book calls it wellbeeing. Just like bees, we are asocial species. We need fellowship and belonging, a stimulating environment anda sense of purpose.

This book explores how that ‘better’ idea took hold first inworkplaces with natural, human-centred architecture and processes, flexibleworking, and mindfulness classes. And it looks at the evidence that thesechanges aren’t just nice, they produce better work. To reflect this newbusiness culture, Better is a newkind of business book: full of humanity, insight, provocation, enlighteningfacts and intriguing images.