Forget everything you thought you knew about being your best. Its not about your own skills or talents. Instead, real success in work and life comes from your connections and relationships the teams you build around you, the friends you make and getting the best out of them. You hugely amplify yourownpotential by helping others around you to realisetheirs.

A TED talk star with over 16 million views, Shawn Achor is one of the worlds leading experts on happiness and personal success and author of the positive psychology classicThe Happiness Advantage.Now, in this game-changing guide to greatness, he demolishes the myth of single individual achievement. With powerful stories, cutting-edge research and exclusive insights from Fortune 100 leaders, he shows how only by working with others will you ever reach yourBig Potential.

Shawn Achoris one of the worlds leading experts on the connection between happiness, success and potential. His research on mindset made the cover ofHarvard Business Review, and his TED talk is one of the most popular of all time with 16 million views. He has worked with over a third of the Fortune 100 companies, the Pentagon and the White House, and lectured in more than 50 countries (from CEOs in China to doctors in Dubai and school children in South Africa). His Happiness Advantage training is one of the most successful corporate training programmes in the world. His research has been published in theNew York Times,WSJ, Harvard Business Review, ForbesandFortune. He is the author ofThe Happiness AdvantageandBefore Happiness.