Some people like to watch feel-good movies at this time of the year: Miracle On 34th Street, It's A Wonderful Life, The Snowman, Elf and suchlike. I like those movies too. But I prefer feel-good books ...

Hildy Gottlieb’s new book The Pollyanna Principles is a handbook for starting a revolution in social benefit organization design and practice, but it isn’t the revolution. What’s the catch? Well, it ...

Researchers went through 100 billion tweets, millions of books, news articles and movies and concluded that our language, along with nine others, is generally positive. The new study, published in the ...

She was cute, she was cheerful, and she was famous for the creation of "the glad game." But today Pollyanna her name is synonymous with optimism — to a fault. Politicians and scholars alike attribute ...

She was cute, she was cheerful, and she was famous for the creation of "the glad game." But today her name is synonymous with optimism — to a... Pollyanna: Spirit of Optimism Born Out of War She was ...

Enjoying a cup of coffee with the CEO at breakfast — no coffee breaks at Trivially Speaking — I commented on life being good and the general state of the company. She said, “Oh, you’re such a ...

A young girl, filled with cheer, marched into American hearts in 1913 through the pages of a book by Eleanor H. Porter. The titular character was Pollyanna, whose name is now synonymous for a person ...

"Every now and then a large number of widely separated individuals will pick out some book to like, some simple little book that comes without much heralding, without the protection of a well-known ...