Posts Tagged ‘purpose’

Lifehack Live for May 12, 2008: Author and Coach Arvind Devalia

Releasing this a day late. Monday was a holiday in Hong Kong, where our head office is, so there was nobody around to upload the podcast file. My apologies!

This week I talked with Arvind Devalia, author of Get the Life You Love and Live It, about finding your life’s purpose and pursuing it. His new book, Personal Social Responsibility, is due out soon!

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May 13 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: giving, Podcast, purpose | no comments»

Break the Mold and Create Your Own Work

Last Thursday, I wrote a column here called “Why Work?” I was hoping that we could break away from thinking about the income we tend to quickly associate with jobs and working for a living, and think about some other motivators, and some other satisfiers. Yes, income is a necessity of life, and I do not deny it is a strong motivator, but once you get enough to satisfy… » Continue

November 2 2006 | By Rosa | Tagged: intention, joy, motivation, passion, purpose, value, work, worth | 262 comments»

Why work?

Imagine something with me for a moment. You are unbelievably wealthy and debt-free. You don’t have to work for the income it brings you, but still, you do work. Because you aren’t concerned with the amount of your paycheck, you are able to choose the work you want to do for the pure joy and pleasure of it. What would you choose? What would you do?

Do you have an answer… » Continue

October 26 2006 | By Rosa | Tagged: intention, joy, motivation, passion, purpose, value, work, worth | 20 comments»

POP² Management

Remember “management by objective?”

In the early years of my own management career, management by objective was the single-minded battle cry for business. It was a time when we took certain things for granted, like the hard work ethic of our staff; with few exceptions, dependability and reliability was pretty much a workplace-entry given.

Little wonder that most of our efforts were directed toward process improvement, with the Total Quality Management movement… » Continue

August 10 2006 | By Rosa | Tagged: acronyms, focus, objective, people, POP², process, purpose, strategy | 8 comments»