The Meaning Revolution
Leading with the Power of Purpose
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- 14,99 €
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'One of the most extraordinary thinkers on leadership and management I have ever encountered' - Sheryl Sandberg
Forget the standard practices of leadership taught in business school -- all about compensation, command and control. This is a new model for how to inspire -- through purpose, principle and people. The Meaning Revolution is Fred Kofman's call to arms for anyone who has ever felt unengaged at work and offers actionable advice for how we can all find more meaning and dignity whatever we do.
Bringing together economics and conflict resolution, counselling and mindfulness, Kofman explains how our most deep-seated anxiety is that we are wasting our lives. The things that we think matter -- salaries and job titles -- actually only account for 15% of our motivation at work. The other 85% is about how we belong, feeling we make a difference, that we serve a purpose larger than ourselves. Transformative leadership is about helping employees feel connected to a great mission or purpose, and discovering the 'immortality project' at the core of your business.
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Kofman, LinkedIn's v-p of executive development, delivers an earnest if overblown treatise on the power of inspiration as a leadership value. According to Kofman, many workers are disillusioned and unhappy because traditional command-and-control leaders rely on incentives, financial and otherwise, to encourage employees which fail to actually inspire. Such leaders end up struggling with the challenges of disengagement, while their organizations stagnate. Transcendent leaders, on the other hand, inspire their followers by communicating that their workday has been spent improving the world in some way. Kofman stresses that workers need to know that their work has meaning, rather than simply having the chance of an annual bonus waved in front of them. Kofman guides readers through the quest for fostering a meaningful corporate culture, harmonious collaboration, and humbleness in the C-suite. All solid advice, but his admonition to stop relying on financial incentives and to instead bring employees into alignment with the company's goals and values has been delivered elsewhere, many times. Readers stuck in a missionless rut may find the guidance helpful, but overall, this is a lot of book for comparatively little payoff.
