Richard Leider proves a detailed and practical process for uncovering your purpose.
Enhanced Third Edition
This edition includes nine videos (27 minutes in duration) of Richard Leider, sharing stories from history and his own life about people living on purpose. The first video sets the stage at the end of this enhanced preface. Four videos at the ends of Part I through Part IV ask the big life questions: WHO Am I?, WHAT Is My Path?, HOW Do I Make It Work?, and WHERE Am I Going? Four additional videos include interviews by Colorado State Professor Rich Feller of Richard Leider on these four topics: Why Write The Power of Purpose, Third Edition?, What Role Does Purpose Play in Life?, What If People Could Live Life Over? and What Do Adults in Transition Seek?
Text-Based Third Edition
To get a life, you need a purpose in life! Purpose is fundamental to health, healing, and happiness. Purpose gives us the will not just to live but to live long and well. The good news is, purpose isn’t a luxury reserved for a gifted few but something each one of us already possesses. In this new edition of his bestselling classic, legendary personal coach Richard Leider offers brand-new tools and techniques for discovering it.
The third edition has been completely revised and updated—in addition to new stories and examples, it features four new chapters. “Purpose across the Ages” looks at the three stages purpose can move through during our lives. “The 24-Hour Purpose Retreat” includes seven mind-opening questions to help you unlock your purpose (and there’s a “default purpose” you can go to if you’re struggling). “The Purpose Checkup” offers a new tool for periodically evaluating the status of your purpose, just like you do with your finances or your health.
And in “Can Science Explain Purpose?” we learn what researchers are discovering about how an increased sense of purpose can improve our health, healing, happiness, and longevity"
Our purpose is an active expression of the deepest dimension within us. Leider details a graceful, practical, and ultimately spiritual process for making it central to your life. This revitalized guide will help you find your reason to get up in the morning and integrate it into everything you do.
Shows how you can reverse your secret hatred of managing by finding a style that fits your personality and capitalizes on your natural strengths.
Professional success, more often than not, means becoming a manager. Yet nobody prepared you for having to deal with messy tidbits like emotions, conflicts, and personalities—all while achieving ever-greater goals and meeting ever-looming deadlines. Not exactly what you had in mind, is it?By the author of Networking for People Who Hate Networking
Shows how you can reverse your secret hatred of managing by finding a style that fits your personality and capitalizes on your natural strengths
Packed with a self-assessment, real-world examples, field-tested tips, and practical guidelines
You're good at your job and, after years of service and dedication, you finally get that coveted promotion. Congratulations! But there's a catch: instead of spending the majority of your time doing the job you lovea job you're still expected to get done, by the wayyou're now also a manager. You weren't trained for this. Nobody prepared you for having to deal with emotions and conflicts and personalities, all while trying to meet ever-greater goals and more pressing deadlines. Not exactly what you had in mind, is it?
Let's face it. It's stressful at the top. But don't worry; it doesn't have to be. Devora Zack knows exactly what you're up against, and she has the tools to help you not only succeed but possibly even enjoy that new management position. As a prominent consultant and coach who speaks to thousands of people annually, Zack is here to yetell you that the only way to maximize your success is by being yourself.
Drawing on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Zack explains that, personality-wise and management-wise, we're either thinkers or feelers. Basically, thinkers lead with their heads and feelers lead with their hearts. Almost nobody's 100 percent thinker or feeler, yet most of us lean one way or the other (and Zack's handy assessment lets you figure out what kind of leader you are). Working withrather than fighting againstyour strengths is key to understanding not only how you make decisions and manage but also how people react to your decisions and respond to you.
Zack takes you through a host of potentially difficult situations, showing how this new way of seeing yourself and others makes managing less of a stumble in the dark and more of a walk in the park. Packed with verve, spunk, wit, and enlightening examples, helpful exercises, and lifesaving tips, Managing for People Who Hate Managing is the new go-to guide for managers looking to love their jobs again.
2013
Introverts may feel powerless in a world where extroverts seem to rule, but theres more than one way to have some sway. As Jennifer Kahnweiler proves in this much-needed book, introverts can be highly effective influencers when, instead of trying to act like extroverts, they use their natural strengths. Kahnweiler shows how you can use those strengths to challenge the status quo, provoke new ways of thinking, effect change, and inspire others to move forward.
Kahnweiler identifies six unique strengths introverts have:
Kahnweiler includes a Quiet Influence Quotient quiz to measure how well youre using these six strengths now. Then, through questions, tools, exercises, and real-world examples, she helps you increase your mastery of these strengths. Quiet Influence is the must-have guide to deeper insight and greater impact that introverts have been waiting for and that extroverts can learn from.
2012
Exposes the damage caused by the myth of the "self-made man" and reveals how wealth is actually created.
The Self-Made Myth challenges the by-your-own-bootstraps narrative enshrined in American tradition and beloved by antigovernment activists to offer a more holistic view of the success of business leaders and entrepreneurs. While acknowledging the importance of hard work, creativity, and leadership, it highlights several crucial, often unrecognized factors, with a particular emphasis on the ways government and society help individuals: public education, research and development grants, social services, roads and highways, laws and regulations that establish a stable business environment, and many more.
Miller and Lapham explore the historic roots of the self-made myth and reveal the societal damage it continues to cause. They present profiles of business leaders who, in their own words, identify the kinds of support and assistance that were crucial to their success, including Warren Buffett, Ben Cohen of Ben and Jerry's, New Belgium Brewery's Kim Jordan, and philanthropist, filmmaker, and heiress Abigail Disney. They also disprove the arguments of individuals such as Donald Trump and Ross Perot who have helped perpetuate their own self-made success myths.
How we view the creation of wealth and individual success shapes our choices on taxes, regulations, public investments in schools and vital infrastructure, the legitimacy of extravagant CEO pay, and more. The Self-Made Myth acknowledges and celebrates the truth of society's contribution. It takes a village to raise a business-it's time to recognize that fact.
"It is critical to change the conversation about how wealth is created, who creates it, and the role of government, and this book does that effectively and importantly. And it couldn't be more timely. I urge you to read this book and get engaged in the debate about progressive taxes."
-Bill Gates Sr.