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Book SynopsisThe rising unhappiness that leaders didn’t see
That’s because while leaders pay close attention to measures like GDP or unemployment, almost none of them track their citizens’ wellbeing.
The implications of this blind spot are significant and far-reaching—leaders missed the citizen unhappiness that triggered events ranging from the Arab uprisings to Brexit to the election of Donald Trump.
What are they going to miss next?
Grounded in Gallup’s global research, Blind Spot makes the urgent case that leaders should measure and quantify wellbeing and happiness—how citizens’ lives are going—and shows them how. It also discusses the five key elements of a great life and where the world needs to improve in each of them to better the lives of people everywhere.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: The Leadership Blind Spot: Happiness and Wellbeing
- Chapter One: What Economic Models Miss
- Chapter Two: Unhappiness and Elections
- Part II: Addressing the Blind Spot: Measuring Happiness and Wellbeing
- Chapter Three: The Happiest People in the World?
- Chapter Four: How on Earth Do You Measure Happiness?
- Chapter Five: Do People Know How Happy They Are?
- Chapter Six: Behavioural Economics and Measuring a Great Life
- Part III: What Makes A Great Life?
- Chapter Seven: The Five Elements of a Great Life
- Chapter Eight: The Global Great Jobs Crisis
- Chapter Nine: Does Money Buy Happiness?
- Chapter Ten: The World's Broken Communities
- Chapter Eleven: The Global Hunger Crisis
- Chapter Twelve: A Lonely Planet
- Chapter Thirteen: The Serious Outcomes of Unhappiness
- Part IV: What Leaders Can Do to Improve How People's Lives Are Going
- Chapter Eighteen: What Public Sector Leaders Can Do
- Chapter Nineteen: What Private Sector Leaders Can Do
- Chapter Twenty: What Public Sector and Private Sector Leaders Can Do Together
- Conclusion: Five Million Conversations
- Appendix
- The Birth of the Gallup World Poll
- The Questions We Ask the World
- How Gallup Surveys the World
- References
- About Gallup
- About the Author
- Acknowledgements
