Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Overview 11
Part I The Leadership Blind Spot: Happiness and Wellbeing 15
Chapter 1 What Economic Models Miss 17
Chapter 2 Unhappiness and Elections 27
Part II Addressing the Blind Spot: Measuring Happiness and Wellbeing 39
Chapter 3 The Happiest People in the World? 43
Chapter 4 How on Earth Do You Measure Happiness? 47
Chapter 5 Do People Know How Happy They Are? 61
Chapter 6 Behavioral Economics and Measuring a Great Life 67
Part III What Makes a Great Life? 79
Chapter 7 The Five Elements of a Great Life 83
Chapter 8 The Global Great Jobs Crisis 91
Chapter 9 Does Money Buy Happiness? 103
Chapter 10 The World's Broken Communities 115
Chapter 11 The Global Hunger Crisis 131
Chapter 12 A Lonely Planet 139
Chapter 13 The Serious Outcomes of Unhappiness 147
Part IV Four Unanswered Questions 153
Chapter 14 How Are Women's Lives Going? 157
Chapter 15 The Emotionless Society 173
Chapter 16 A Letter to Rwandan President Paul Kagame 185
Chapter 17 How the Global Pandemic Shaped Happiness 199
Part V What Leaders Can Do to Improve How People's Lives Are Going 211
Chapter 18 What Public Sector Leaders Can Do 213
Chapter 19 What Private Sector Leaders Can Do 221
Chapter 20 What Public Sector and Private Sector Leaders Can Do Together 235
Conclusion: Five Million Conversations 243
Appendix 249
The Birth of the Gallup World Poll 251
The Questions We Ask the World 255
How Gallup Surveys the World 269
References 275
About Gallup 333
About the Author 335
Acknowledgments 337
