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In Making Work Work: The Positivity Solution for Any Work Environment (Sterling Ethos, 2016), Shola Richards offers solutions for creating a more positive professional environment using kindness and mutual respect. The author's journey in writing the book and starting a movement around positivity followed a painful period. He spent two years job working for a boss who once told him his name was "too complicated and weird" for customers to pronounce and asked him to refer to himself as "Steve" at work. After two soul-sapping years, he quit to become an expert on workplace happiness and engagement.
Richards, a speaker, certified emotional intelligence practitioner, leadership trainer and...