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Entries Tagged as 'Meaning'

I Love My Job: Rasmussen/Su, Husband & Wife Architects

April 17th, 2007 · 2 Comments

In the second of a semi-regular interview series on people who love their jobs, I spoke with Kevin Rasmussen and Vivian Su, a husband and wife team running their own small architecture firm. They have worked to create a lifestyle that blends doing what they love, with caring for their two small children in a […]

Tags: Work-life balance · Autonomy · Passion · Career · Fulfillment · Meaning

I Love My Job: New Interview Series

April 4th, 2007 · 7 Comments

We talk often on this blog about the quest to find work that is personally meaningful, much more that just a paycheck, and ultimately a job that is THE job — the one you’d prefer to have over any other. It’s the Holy Grail of employment: dreamy and glorious, but nearly impossible to find.
But there […]

Tags: Employment · Career · Fulfillment · Purpose · Meaning · More than a living

Make every project a portfolio piece

March 12th, 2007 · 2 Comments

(This is part of the “Enhance perspective, assume control” series)
One of the things that always killed me about working on the corporate side of the desk was my perspective. I always felt like I owed something to “the Business.” With a big “B.”
There was something beyond the people with whom I worked, beyond the execs, […]

Tags: Meaning · Control · Perspective

Potty Training, College, and Other Tasks You Should Tackle Yourself

March 7th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Ugh.
If you have (had) a little person in your home, you know what potty training is all about. This is a crazy mix of hope, anxiety, and sense of pending loss as your little person flirts with the idea of leaving diapers behind for a bold and independent new world. As easy as diapers are […]

Tags: Growth · Mentoring · Can vs. Should · Meaning

The only constant is you

February 20th, 2007 · 3 Comments

When Toby and I started scribbling the ideas that became More than a living, we were trying to find a way to describe the business ennui in which we both found ourselves seemingly irrevocably ensconced.
Part of that cathartic process was giving our goal a name. That concept was “more than a living.” That’s what we […]

Tags: Autonomy · Growth · Passion · Performance · Happiness · Goals · Career · Purpose · Meaning · Responsibility

Work-Life Balance is a myth

January 24th, 2007 · 7 Comments

Work-life balance. Oy.
Everybody loves to wax on and on and on about the infamous “work-life balance.” As if it were some mystical answer to all the problems of the business world. How everyone would be happy little clams in the work-a-day world if only–if only–we could all achieve a work-life balance.
“Julie seems a little stressed.”
“You […]

Tags: Work-life balance · Wrong · Career · Meaning · Myth

More Useless Meetings, Please

January 20th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Nothing is more disrespectful than showing up late to a meeting. It is almost better to completely blow it off, at least then people can assume you had a scheduling conflict.
I know you know that it is disrespectful. I know you know that YOU hate waiting for the key decision maker to arrive. But the […]

Tags: Wrong · Meaning · Failure

There’s even a manifesto for being happy at work

December 13th, 2006 · No Comments

The more manifestos the better. That’s what we always say.
And while 26 points may be a little long–and rival the verbosity of our own postulates–I think this is well worth the read: The Happy At Work Manifesto
(Hat tip to Curt Rosengren)

Tags: Manifesto · Passion · Happiness · Meaning

Miscommunicating on money versus meaning

December 8th, 2006 · 3 Comments

This really did start out as a comment to John Moore’s Brand Autopsy entry entitled Is it Making Money or Making Meaning? But I just kept writing and writing and writing. So I thought I’d move it over here.
In the post, John argues that employees join a company to make meaning but stay with a […]

Tags: Motivation · Money · Meaning