Skip to Main Content
Love and Work
book

Love and Work

by Marcus Buckingham
April 2022
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
320 pages
5h 20m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
Content preview from Love and Work

image

Your Children Are Not Your Children

One Thing I Hope You Learned from Your Parents

When my son was five and my daughter three, we arrived at my son’s best friend’s birthday party only to bump into Coco the Clown schlepping his clown kit down the driveway.

“Are you done?” the kids’ mother asked.

“Yes,” Coco replied, “the show ended a few minutes ago.”

We were late. The kids didn’t seem to mind too much—clowns were meh to my son and substandard Disney princesses to my daughter.

Their mom reached into her purse.

“If I give you this”—she held out a couple of $20 bills—“can you stay for another thirty minutes for my kids?”

“Er, sure,” said Coco.

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

The Well-Being of Children

The Well-Being of Children

Gottfried Schweiger, Gunter Graf
Competing in the New World of Work

Competing in the New World of Work

Keith Ferrazzi, Kian Gohar, Noel Weyrich
Nine Lies About Work

Nine Lies About Work

Marcus Buckingham, Ashley Goodall
Think for Yourself

Think for Yourself

Vikram Mansharamani

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781647821241