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Information and registration on http://www.usievents.com See part 1: • Meaning of Work, happiness and motivation... One year after his first USI session, André Comte-Sponville presents the end of his reflections between the meaning of work, happiness and the motivation of his employees. André takes up the theories of Plato, Spinoza and Schopenhauer to share his vision with us, telling us among other things that a good manager is not the one who is loved by his employees, but rather the one who creates the right conditions for them to love their work. Why do we work? asks the philosopher André Comte-Sponville who concludes this session. To satisfy our desires and to be happy, he believes, hence his warning: there is an urgent need to treat others humanely, that is to say as the subject of our desires. A manager is first and foremost a professional of the desire of the other: when the other is the customer, it is marketing, when the other is the employee, it is management. Salary is a criterion for recruiting but not for maintaining motivation. The real motivation at work is pleasure. The paradox is that the company's primary goal is not the employee's happiness. But a happy employee is a productive collaborator: it is a win-win inversion of the means-end relationship. But be careful, warns the philosopher, corporate ethics is not a morality, it does not speak of love or generosity, it will rather put forward objectives such as efficiency or productivity which are not moral values. In the world of technology, which adds its own acceleration to that of the environment, we must be careful not to confuse the acceleration of technical time and the very wise slowness of the mind: "Montaigne or Spinoza have aged less than the weekly you were reading two weeks ago." concludes the philosopher. Follow USI on Twitter: / usievents Find USI on LinkedIn: http://linkd.in/13Ls21Y Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/19sPpSp