Find your purpose at work.
In an ideal world, our work lives would be completely fulfilling and
intrinsically motivating.
But what if you're stuck in a job and your heart isn't in it anymore? Or
what if your company's mission seems unrelated to the work you do day in
and day out? This book showcases the power of passion--and how you and
your team can find it at work.
This volume includes the work of:
- Morten T. Hansen
- Teresa M. Amabile
- Scott A. Snook
- Nick Craig
This collection of articles includes Finding Meaning at Work, Even When
Your Job Is Dull, by Morten Hansen and Dacher Keltner; What to Do When
Your Heart Isn't in Your Work Anymore, by Andy Molinsky; You Don't Find
Your Purpose--You Build It, by John Coleman; How to Find Meaning in a
Job That Isn't Your True Calling, by Emily Esfahani Smith; You're Never
Done Finding Purpose at Work, by Dan Pontefract; From Purpose to Impact,
by Nick Craig and Scott A. Snook; Five Questions to Help Your Employees
Find Their Inner Purpose, by Kristi Hedges; How to Make Work More
Meaningful for Your Team, by Lewis Garrad and Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic;
The Power of Small Wins, by Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer; and
The Founder of TOMS on Reimagining the Company's Mission, by Blake
Mycoskie.
HOW TO BE HUMAN AT WORK.
The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential
reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of
Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven
research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical
advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring
essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work.
Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are
critical for ambitious professionals to master.
