Over the last 3 decades, a multitude of reputable international researches have shown a solid positive correlation between stress management and emotional intelligence from the one side and long-term sustainable success from the other side. As a matter of fact, the ability of individuals, organizations, cities, and nations to continually reduce the total time that they spend in frustration as well as their ability to develop their emotional intelligence have been proven to be key for the attainment of their personal, organizational and national strategic objectives. From here comes the necessity, the absolute necessity, for individuals, organizations, cities, and nations to adopt a core process to continually measure and improve their ‘Occupational Happiness’. The latter being the total time spent in comfort vs. the total time spent in frustration at the workplace.

Furthermore, the tremendously accelerated change that has been occurring in the environment over the last 5 decades implies that individuals, organizations, cities, and nations that do not continuously reinvent themselves through continual innovation, run a great risk of becoming obsolete/irrelevant and thus lose their ability to create economic value which is needed for their survival. In order for individuals to be able to innovate, they need to resort to creative thinking which, as many medical researchers have demonstrated, is highly impaired by accumulated and excessive stress. From here comes the link between prioritizing, measuring, and improving the ‘Occupational Happiness’ and the ability to think creatively and subsequently innovate and create economic value.