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Personal Purpose in Action: Lynne Zappone
Last week I shared with you the importance of knowing WHY you work and how you can put into words your purpose of leadership. While we’ve tried to make the process simple, knowing where to begin can...
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Personal Purpose in Action: Andrew Skehan
A couple of weeks ago I shared with you the importance of knowing WHY you work and how you can put into words your purpose of leadership. While we’ve tried to make the process simple, knowing where to...
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Personal Purpose in Action: Scott MacLellan
A couple of weeks ago I shared with you the importance of knowing WHY you work and how you can put into words your purpose of leadership. While we’ve tried to make the process simple, knowing where to...
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Life Lessons
The first step in finding your personal purpose for work and life is to look back over the experiences of your life thus far. If we rush forward, without time for reflection on what we have learned so...
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Your Values: Do they come to work?
The second step in the discovery of your personal purpose is determining the top priority values that you want to be evident in your life at work. All of us have values that are important to us. And if...
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Defining Your Personal Purpose for Work
This week I had a wonderful conversation with a young man named James at Regent University. He came up to talk to me at the end of my teaching on the Purpose of Leadership. He explained to me that he...
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Take Action on Your Personal Purpose
One of my many shortcomings is that I hate exercise. I’ve never experienced that adrelin rush thing that athlete’s talk about. For me, exercise is just sweat and muscle aches, and I don’t enjoy either...
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Put Your Purpose to the Test
When my daughter was getting ready to go to college, my husband gave her this book to read: How to Win at College: Surprising Secrets for Success from the Country’s Top Students by Cal Newport. Among...
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Are You An Inspiring Role Model?
In my work, I often have opportunities to meet great leaders and to learn from their wise counsel. Recently, I met such a leader and he was kind enough to spend an hour with me sharing his observations...
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Career Path? Life Path?
We often gain insight from questions we are asked. Particularly when the questions are on topics we were not thinking about at the time. Recently, I have been asked twice to describe my career path to...
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Sacrifice or Pleasure?
My observation is that sacrifice is not a popular notion in our culture. It has bad implications. When you sacrifice, you lose something, you give something up. It might be hard, uncomfortable, even...
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Stay Put. Add Value.
It’s January, and everyone is working on our New Year’s resolutions. We’re goal setting. We’re working out. We’re dieting. We’re planning new projects. We’re organizing our calendars. In our work life,...
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