The Purpose Linked Organization: How Passionate Leaders Inspire Winning Teams and Great Results (Hardcover)

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Meet the indispensable people who can bring your organization to that crucial next level.
How many can you recognize?
And where do you fit in?

The Builder: Creating a strong sense of urgency to deliver results, they’re the driving force of a growing business

The Connector: Born communicators, adept at negotiation and relationship-building

The Conceiver: These “intellectual acrobats” think outside the box, imagine new possibilities, and contribute to innovation

The Altruist: On the lookout to raise your organization’s profile while benefiting the world at large

Leadership development experts Alaina Love and Marc Cugnon have identified ten such “Passion Profile Archetypes,” and in The Purpose Linked Organization, you’ll learn the strengths, vulnerabilities, and proper care and feeding of them all.

Authors Love and Cugnon offer easily implementable ways to channel the power of each individual’s passions in a positive, purposeful direction. You’ll understand how to link skills, values, and passions to performance—and how doing so will bring the results your organization can’t afford to be without.

Just as important, you’ll be able to confidently assess your own purpose and passions so thatyour own organizational role will be as engaging, fulfilling, and productive as possible. Most employees spend more than 84,000 hours of their lives at work. When that time is personally meaningful, great things can happen, which will enrich your organization, the customers it serves, and even society as a whole.

From the Back Cover

FREE WITH YOUR PURCHASE:
Exclusive access to “The Passion Profiler,” an online tool for identifying your Passion Archetypes—your individual strengths, vulnerabilities, and capacity for achievement, as well as those of every member of your organization.

Work without passion and purpose?
Don’t you and your organization deserve better?

“Grow your business and inspire your team with the secrets of purpose and passion in this highly practical book.”
—Marshall Goldsmith, bestselling author of What Got You Here Won’t Get You There

“Smart leaders understand that productivity and innovation would be greatly increased if only they could fully engage their people by putting them in jobs that match their passions and talents; but how? The Purpose Linked Organization provides a novel, practical, and no-nonsense approach to help leaders accomplish that goal.”
—Henri Lipmanowicz, former president of Merck, Intercontinental Region and Japan; chairman and cofounder of Plexus Institute

“This book is timely and essential for developing passionate leaders.”
—Virgil L. Smith, vice president, Gannett Co., Inc.

“If you’re a business leader searching for better ways to develop your organization’s talent . . . don’t miss this book!”
—Joseph Pieroni, CEO, Daiichi-Sankyo

“Love and Cugnon offer leaders the missing link for boosting employee performance beyond the level that skills and competence alone will allow.”
—Patricia O’Connell, management editor, BusinessWeek

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (May 4, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071624708
• ISBN-13: 978-0071624701
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #353,029 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Implications far beyond the business world., May 24, 2009

By	Sharene Garaman PsyD (USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a brilliant, fun book to read with implications far beyond the business world. The opening chapter presents a very compelling, unassailable case for honoring purpose and passion in the workplace. But it's not just another boring book about management styles. Love and Cugnon come from a business background, but they have written a text grounded in positive psychology.

For decades, psychologists have attempted to stress the importance of honoring individual temperaments and passions (not simply skills) in job assignments, but I can now see that we have not used the right language to capture corporate attention. Love and Cugnon have done just that with their imaginative and well-researched book. They provide us with work possibilities that can nurture the soul, not simply deliver a paycheck. They have raised the bar in the world of business leadership and beyond.

I'm a clinical psychologist with a good deal of insight into my own thoughts and behaviors, but I learned about myself, family, and friends within these pages. This book can make sense of our past choices and assist in directing our futures. I am not overstating my case when I say it can inform and transform lives, and therefore organizations. I will be giving this book to everyone whose well-being is important to me.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Engage your workforce meaningfully, October 22, 2009

By	Jessica Lee - See all my reviews

This is a great read. I have been pondering how we can engage our talented workforce in a more meaningful manner for them. In this book, Alaina and Marc have provided a concise framework and practical means to understand and unleash passion of people in the workplace. It is exciting to see what a humble, inspirational leader can do to transform the performance of an organization in this economically challenged time.

The book gives paths for individual, team, and enterprise to embark on the journey to purpose and harness the passion. The online profiler is very helpful.

Adding an "individual fulfillment" objective to measure how well the individuals apply their passion to their role at work is quite creative. I am thinking to try it with my team.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A competitive advantage for any individual or company, September 19, 2009

By	GnT (Montreal, Canada) - See all my reviews

This book is a brilliant solution to a major problem the business world is facing today - sub-optimal employee engagement. Many companies have been through massive layoffs and are left to manage the aftermath of excessive work- loads, budget cuts and disillusioned employees who are re-evaluating their loyalty to the company. Applying the concepts and tools developed by Love and Cugnon will most certainly help retain top talent.

From an individual perspective, I enjoyed the book and the online Passion Profiler, but what surprised me most was the value of the in-depth report and personal interview with Love and Cugnon. My expectations were already high and they exceeded them! Those who have been working for well over a decade may not think of pursuing the exercise past the online profiler, but you may be surprised by what you learn. For example, your fourth archetype, which you don`t see in the online Passion Profiler, may be almost as high as your tertiary archetype. Knowing yourself is the first step to winning in any situation and the Purpose Linked tools are indispensible in this regard.