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Outward Bound board member and training firm founder Richard J. Leider (Repacking Your Bags) makes it his business to help people find purpose in the work they do, and to find work that gives them purpose. His dynamic and useful new book, The Power of Purpose: Creating Meaning in Your Life and Work, tells the stories of those who have had to struggle for personal satisfaction on the job, and poses the practical and spiritual questions to ask oneself in the pursuit of "Esprit de Core."
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction - The Purpose Quest | 1 | |
| Pt. I | The Purpose of Purpose | 5 |
| Pt. II | Living on Purpose | 43 |
| Pt. III | Working on Purpose | 75 |
| Pt. IV | Paths to Purpose | 105 |
| Conclusion: The Age of Purpose | 137 | |
| App | A Purpose Discovery Group Guide | 141 |
| Further Reading | 145 | |
| Continuing on Purpose | 149 | |
| Index | 151 | |
| About the Author | 161 |
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Posted February 5, 2011
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Posted May 8, 2011
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Overview
Leider examines the critical importance of a sense of purpose in achieving a full, productive, and contributory working life, and explains how finding purpose is the key to living both longer and better.Outward Bound board member and training firm founder Richard J. Leider (Repacking Your Bags) makes it his business to help people find purpose in the work they do, and to find work that gives them purpose. His dynamic and useful new book, The Power of Purpose: Creating Meaning in Your Life and Work, tells the stories of those who have had to struggle for personal satisfaction on the job, and poses the practical and spiritual questions to ask oneself in the pursuit ...