Working on Purpose

Turns out there’s a simple, yet powerful dynamic that enables business to thrive today: Purpose as the crucial foundation and execution as the catalyst to fulfill it. Striking the right balance is the opportunity. And when leaders help employees align with the organization’s purpose and facilitate their experience of work as a meaningful and a worthy way to spend their precious lives, fulfillment and committed work effort result. And the glorious cycle is reinforced as employees passionately contribute their talents and more revenues and profit are generated.

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Turns out there’s a simple, yet powerful dynamic that enables business to thrive today: Purpose as the crucial foundation and execution as the catalyst to fulfill it. Striking the right balance is the opportunity. And when leaders help employees align with the organization’s purpose and facilitate their experience of work as a meaningful and a worthy way to spend their precious lives, fulfillment and committed work effort result.

This episode offers an inspiring and compelling promise. If we want to live in our diverse world with ease and joy, we all must re-evaluate the ideas we accepted as naïve children observing biased adults. Our future depends on us making this effort and committing to a journey of uncovering the truth about ourselves and others. There we will be part of creating a world based on compassion for all, rather than small-minded perspectives that limit the potential of many for the favor of a few. We can all learn to employ curiosity and wonder when encountering others who seem different from us on the surface. And in doing so, we will be delighted in the wonder of each unique person we encounter while helping create a connected, peaceful world that beckons us home.

This episode offers an inspiring and compelling promise. If we want to live in our diverse world with ease and joy, we all must re-evaluate the ideas we accepted as naïve children observing biased adults. Our future depends on us making this effort and committing to a journey of uncovering the truth about ourselves and others. There we will be part of creating a world based on compassion for all, rather than small-minded perspectives that limit the potential of many for the favor of a few. We can all learn to employ curiosity and wonder when encountering others who seem different from us on the surface. And in doing so, we will be delighted in the wonder of each unique person we encounter while helping create a connected, peaceful world that beckons us home.

This episode offers an inspiring and compelling promise. If we want to live in our diverse world with ease and joy, we all must re-evaluate the ideas we accepted as naïve children observing biased adults. Our future depends on us making this effort and committing to a journey of uncovering the truth about ourselves and others. There we will be part of creating a world based on compassion for all, rather than small-minded perspectives that limit the potential of many for the favor of a few.

What would your company – and the world – look like if you as a business leader or owner managed to help each employee recognize that his or her individual contribution made a meaningful difference to the world, every day? And you as a leader were focused on how to position your company or department to help solve some of the stickiest problems facing the globe today – and let your employees devote 10% of their time to these special projects? I’ll tell you: Each individual employee would go home at night knowing their one, precious life was being spent in service of worthy causes and give mightily of their talents to make the company succeed. A worthy aspiration for any company, I so applaud DSM’s model of the promise of enlightened business and enriching workplace.

What would your company – and the world – look like if you as a business leader or owner managed to help each employee recognize that his or her individual contribution made a meaningful difference to the world, every day? And you as a leader were focused on how to position your company or department to help solve some of the stickiest problems facing the globe today – and let your employees devote 10% of their time to these special projects? I’ll tell you: Each individual employee would go home at night knowing their one, precious life was being spent in service of worthy causes and give mightily of their talents to make the company succeed. A worthy aspiration for any company, I so applaud DSM’s model of the promise of enlightened business and enriching workplace.

A leader is the person literally “out front,” which means being on display and in full view of an array of discerning parties affected by your decisions. It takes courage and conviction, but what an incredible difference you can make to the lives of those you touch in this capacity when you are consciously looking to positively impact all the stakeholders you serve and challenge paradigms. Guest: Dr. Cary Israel

What would your company – and the world – look like if you as a business leader or owner managed to help each employee recognize that his or her individual contribution made a meaningful difference to the world, every day? I’ll tell you: Each individual employee would go home at night knowing their one, precious life was being spent in service of worthy causes and give mightily of their talents to make the company succeed.

A leader is the person literally “out front,” which means being on display and in full view of an array of discerning parties affected by your decisions. It takes courage and conviction, but what an incredible difference you can make to the lives of those you touch in this capacity when you are consciously looking to positively impact all the stakeholders you serve and challenge paradigms. In this episode, we talk about “enlightened leadership,” and hear how Dr. Cary Israel completely overhauled Collin College where students and staff flourish; business, government, and education work together, and the surrounding community is enriched and lifted.

A leader is the person literally “out front,” which means being on display and in full view of an array of discerning parties affected by your decisions. It takes courage and conviction, but what an incredible difference you can make to the lives of those you touch in this capacity when you are consciously looking to positively impact all the stakeholders you serve and challenge paradigms. In this episode, we talk about “enlightened leadership,” and hear how Dr. Cary Israel completely overhauled Collin College where students and staff flourish; business, government, and education work together, and the surrounding community is enriched and lifted.

Business and the system of capitalism can do so much better than narrowing the focus on profits over people and the environment. When governed by conscience and tapping into the collective magnificence of the human spirit, imagine a world where business leads the charge to heal what ails society by unleashing its vast access to human and material resources. When we aspire for greater heights, we’re more likely to achieve them, so let’s. Why would you want your life as an individual or an organization to stand for anything less?

Business and the system of capitalism can do so much better than narrowing the focus on profits over people and the environment. When governed by conscience and tapping into the collective magnificence of the human spirit, imagine a world where business leads the charge to heal what ails society by unleashing its vast access to human and material resources. When we aspire for greater heights, we’re more likely to achieve them, so let’s. Why would you want your life as an individual or an organization to stand for anything less?

Business and the system of capitalism can do so much better than narrowing the focus on profits over people and the environment. When governed by conscience and tapping into the collective magnificence of the human spirit, imagine a world where business leads the charge to heal what ails society by unleashing its vast access to human and material resources. When we aspire for greater heights, we’re more likely to achieve them, so let’s. Why settle for anything less?