Absolutely brilliant!

While browsing through my morning paper I came across a small story that just blew me away!
The story in the business section was about a small flag company called Flagworks, that had increased its sales many fold. The owner, Arlene Flock, had made many changes when she took over the business. The one change that she made that had the biggest impact on the fortunes of the company is perhaps one of the most brilliant ideas I have ever heard of. Large corporations would pay a consultant big bucks for this idea!
This lady decided to only hire people who where happy! That's right if she didn't feel that you were'nt a really happy person, you didn't get the job. She went even further and hired a Happiness Manager. His job is as you might expect, is to find ways to keep her happy employees....HAPPY!
Before you write her idea off as goofy consider this; studies have proven that happy people are more productive, take fewer sick days, get along with others better and my favorite.....their brains work better. When it comes to employee retention I'm just betting that working with a bunch of happy people is not the kind of job people walk away from. This lady should be hired as a management guru, but since she too busy making money, maybe I'll just pirate the idea and say thank you very much.
Can you imagine how much good a Happiness Manager could do at a place like a hospital? And of course if they hired only happy people? I would not be the least bit surprised if sick people healed quicker, surrounded by all that positive energy. Or how about the post office? It makes my head spin to think of the possibilities. It makes me giddy just to think about this concept.
So if you are a business owner or a manager, you might have just found one fantastic tip!

UPDATE: This post was republished at www.business-opportunities.biz and as a result brought extra visitors to this site for which I am grateful for. One of the comments was from a lady who had this to say.....
Perhaps this could be applied to finding a marriage partner too! In fact, now come to think of it ….