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4 Lessons on Connecting People to Purpose From NASA’s Moon Landing

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It’s a familiar organizational leadership story. A well-intentioned leader reads a report on the researched power of purpose or sees a competitor doing it. He or she brings a group together to craft a purpose statement that is timeless, human-centered, far-reaching, and grand. The leader then “communicates” this purpose internally and externally hoping to inspire a sense of meaningfulness or … Read more

Want to Be Happier at Work? Forget About Yourself

“In fact, it is a constitutive characteristic of being human that it always points, and is directed, to something other than itself.” – Viktor Frankl It was a bitter northern Colorado winter day last December. The kind of day when college students wait for that magical e-mail letting them know class is cancelled. It never … Read more