Channel happiness and find your purpose with stories from the world’s leading minds
Work is Love Made Visible offers the insights of some of the world’s greatest thought leaders as they tackle one of life’s most difficult treasure hunts: finding purpose. The word “purpose” is big. Very big. And heavy. It carries the weight of a lifetime of work and struggle; the weight of legacy, and the mass of days spent not doing something else. It’s something we all grapple with at some point—some of us find our purpose, others spend a lifetime searching. A lucky few grow to realize they’ve been working their purpose all along. Most of us aren’t quite that lucky; often, fulfilling your purpose requires some kind of change—career, lifestyle, habits, family—and what then? Are we selfish for the upheaval, or are we fulfilling destiny? Once we know our purpose, how do we pursue it?
This book asked those very questions of people who have followed their purpose and succeeded on a global scale. Their un-distilled answers are here, lending you the wisdom of their experiences, their examples, inspiration, and motivations as they:
- Tackle the universal struggle with individual purpose and meaning
- Illustrate how personal thought patterns contribute to real-world action
- Move challenges into the opportunities of their lives
- Reveal how they arrived at their life’s purpose, and what they sacrificed to get there
We all want a meaningful life. We want to work together for a brighter future, we want to celebrate our differences and commit to good. We want to inspire others, nurture their talents, and help them grow. We want to look back one day on a life well-lived, and leave something behind that matters to the world. Work is Love Made Visible shows you how some of us have succeeded, and offers you insight and guidance so that you can do the same.
Table of Contents:
Foreword Alan Mulally xv
Preface xix
Acknowledgments xxiii
About the Editors xxv
PART I Leadership Is a Matter of How to Be, Not How to Do 1
Chapter 1 My Journey with Peter Drucker 3
Frances Hesselbein
Chapter 2 The Evolution of Leadership – Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow 9
Marshall Goldsmith
Chapter 3 Leaders Who Become Organization Anthropologists 19
ave Ulrich
Chapter 4 Waves 27
Whitney Johnson
Chapter 5 Being a Good Leader 37
Patrick Lencioni
Chapter 6 Scaling Your Impact as a Leader 41
Taavo Godtfredsen
Chapter 7 In Search of Obsession 51
Susan Scott
PART II To Serve Is to Live 57
Chapter 8 A Call to Create Positive Change on a Global Scale 59
Jim Yong Kim
Chapter 9 Turning Defeat into Victory 65
Margaret Heffernan
Chapter 10 What I See from My Window 71
Eric Schurenberg
Chapter 11 Loving Work Despite the Odds: Secrets from Sir Richard Branson and Nelson Mandela 77
Mark C. Thompson
Chapter 12 The New Work of Leaders: How Does Your Leadership Narrative Show Up? 85
Stephanie Pace Marshall
Chapter 13 Choose, Build, Live High Expectations! 93
Mel Spiese
Chapter 14 Respect, Courage, Honesty: True Leadership Traits 103
Jack Zenger
PART III Defi ning Moments 107
Chapter 15 The Power of Accepting Feedback 109
Hubert Joly
Chapter 16 Discovering Motifs 115
Rita McGrath
Chapter 17 Is It Time to Leave Your Comfort Zone? 123
Beverly Kaye
Chapter 18 Understanding in Moments 129
Catherine Carr
Chapter 19 Brother, Can You Paradigm? 137
Jeffrey Kuhn
Chapter 20 Life Lessons from the Tennis Court 147
Prakash Raman
Chapter 21 The Need for Conscious Choice 155
Margaret (Meg) Wheatley
PART IV Be Ye an Opener of Doors 161
Chapter 22 The Elegance and Simplicity of Coaching 163
Michael Bungay Stanier
Chapter 23 The Gift of Belonging 169
Garry Ridge
Chapter 24 New Leader Development: Leadership Lessons from the Doerr Institute 181
Brigadier General Tom Kolditz
Chapter 25 The World’s Greatest Ophthalmologist 191
Pawel Motyl
Chapter 26 Don’t Just Let Culture Happen 199
Alex Osterwalder
Chapter 27 The Space Between Intention and Action 205
Liz Wiseman
PART V Bright Future! 213
Chapter 28 Be Positive! 215
Frances Hesselbein
Chapter 29 What Do People Do All Day? 221
Sarah McArthur
Chapter 30 What If There Were No Problems, Only Projects? 227
David Allen
Chapter 31 A Cheerleader at Heart 235
Whitney Johnson
Chapter 32 Silver Linings 241
Asheesh Advani
Chapter 33 Are You Happy at Work? (And Why It Matters) 247
Annie McKee
Index 255
About the Author :
FRANCES HESSELBEIN is the author of three autobiographies and the co-editor of 30 books in 29 languages. Frances Hesselbein is considered one of the country’s greatest leaders. She served as the CEO of Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. and was recognized as a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient for her work as “a pioneer for women, volunteerism, diversity and opportunity.”
MARSHALL GOLDSMITH is the only two-time winner of the Thinkers 50 Award for #1 Leadership Thinker in the World. He is author/editor of 39 books, including three New York Times bestsellers that have sold over 2.5 million copies and been listed bestseller in 12 countries.
SARAH McARTHUR is COO of Marshall Goldsmith Inc. and founder of *sdedit, a boutique writing and editing firm. Co-author/editor of numerous books, including Coaching for Leadership, her fields of expertise are management, leadership, and executive and business coaching.
