“The good news is you don't have to quit your day job to find meaning at work.”
Part Two: Chapter 7 Reinventing Your Work Life
By Holly Branson
You can be a Pioneer of Purpose
Everyone wants to derive meaning from work. Meaning for some will be the sense of personal achievement they get from a job well done. For others it will be that they feel valued, included, and respected by a company that sees the human being behind the payroll number. And for an increasing number of people—across all age groups and industry sectors—it is the desire to work for a purpose-driven company. Being part of an organization that embeds its purpose, by including all of its staff and stakeholders in the amplification and execution of that purpose, has rapidly become the number-one driver to achieve meaning at work. Survey after survey, in the past couple of years, has seen a sea change from a desire for happiness at work to the desire for meaning at work.
If you don't work for an organization that has started its journey to achieving profit with purpose yet, you may be thinking: this purpose stuff sounds great, and I'm glad some other people are doing it. But I'm not about to leave my job, start a charity, or move to Kenya to find fulfillment. So how does the average employee bring about social change at a company?
ANYONE CAN ACHIEVE PURPOSE AT WORK, AND EVERYONE SHOULD TRY, SINCE IT BENEFITS ...
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