Put Happiness to Work: 7 Strategies to Elevate Engagement for Optimal Performance

CHAPTER 6

Strategy 4: Activate Employee Superpowers

Fun fact: I come most alive working 14-hour days in 110-degree heat on a desolate piece of dusty land in the middle of nowhere.

Each year, for the decade prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, a couple dozen campmates and I arrived from cities all across the globe five days before the gates opened to Burning Man, an art festival for 80,000 people and an experiment in temporary community in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. Our job was to build Pink Heart, a theme camp that hosted thousands of people over the course of a week with extensive shade, pink furry couches, and an unimpeded front-row view of ...