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In this article the author reflects on the relationship between employee health and performance. In the article he discusses work that he has done with Jim Loehr, cofounder of the Human Performance Institute, to help organizations improve employee performance and health by helping to manage the physical, emotional,mental and spiritual energy of their employees and reflects on research on employee health that he has conducted at Wellness & Prevention, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company.

The author discusses an article published in "The Art of Health Promotion" by Jessica Grossmeier and Nikki Hudsmith concerning differences in how business leaders utilize the terms performance and productivity and how health promotion practitioners can improve how employee health is perceived in efforts to improve performance.

The article discusses various reports within the issue, including one by Jack Groppel on the biology of business performance, one by John Harris and Paul E. Terry on the connection between health and performance and one by Ted Wegleitner, Jennifer Myster and Phil Davis on the relationship between health and employee productivity and performance.