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STEP 6 Turn Midlevel Managers into Purpose-Driven Leaders
We have a friend who strives to be a positive, purpose-driven leader. She was invited to join a new company that has a purpose-driven culture. She asked to meet with us and discuss her opportunity. As she described the culture of the new organization, she kept saying she felt attracted to the company.
We asked her what it meant to feel attracted. She described her interview with one of the senior executives. Within 15 minutes she was engaged in an intimate and candid exploration of who he really was and who she really was. She asked him, “What draws you here?”
Tears came to his eyes. He said, “When I leave home in the morning, I feel that I am driving to my second home and ...
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