Table of Contents

• Introduction
  • Overview
• 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

About the Author

Jon Clifton is the CEO of Gallup. 

His mission is to help 7 billion citizens be heard on their most pressing work and life issues through the Gallup World Poll, a 100-year initiative spanning over 150 countries.

Clifton is a nonresident senior fellow at Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion.  He serves on the boards of directors for Gallup and Young Professionals in Foreign Policy.

Clifton received a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and a Juris Doctor from the University of Nebraska.  He was also awarded an honorary doctorate from Midland University.