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Do Good At Work: How Simple Acts of Social Purpose Drive Success and Wellbeing Kindle Edition
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherMorgan James Publishing
- Publication dateNovember 24, 2020
- File size1333 KB
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—Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Think Again, Originals and Give and Take and host of the TED podcast “WorkLife”
“Unique, original, practical, inspiring, Do Good at Work: How Simple Acts of Social Purpose Drive Success and Wellbeing is unreservedly recommended as a life changing, life enhancing read for anyone having difficulty with their present employment.”
—Midwest Book Review
“Written in a light, humorous style and dotted with pen and ink illustrations by the author, Do Good at Work is an easy read that offers terrific, very practical advice on how to make your work life more meaningful.”
—Forbes
“You can’t get what’s here anywhere else. The author, an expert in her field, creates a deeply affecting work of art combined with thoroughly researched findings, personal narrative and her own portrait sketches.
A lot more makes it unique. Ms. Boccalandro fully shows the central importance of bringing social purpose to work, brings dozens of examples shown with a novelist's eye, deals with resistance and objections and the reality of work pressures and, after all that, invites the reader to be in contact with her if they can’t find a way to implement what she’s writing about.
I don’t know any other author who’s done that.
The author also addresses the essential point that the actions we take turn us into the kind of person we are. Every day, by the actions we take or resist taking, we become someone closer to our authentic self—or someone more distant. She makes a powerful case, a stupendous invitation: participate in transforming the world through everyday small activities and become who you really are by doing so.
Almost everyone can take up this book and be informed, supported and inspired. Read it yourself and recommend it to others. Remember seeing or reading The Color Purple or hearing Aretha Franklin for the first time? This book is like that.”
—James Flaherty, founder of New Ventures West, co-founder of Integral Leadership LLC and author of Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others
“Do Good at Work is both a riveting and vital read for corporate leaders, especially now. The events of 2020 have demonstrated that companies need to play an increasingly larger role in the broader society. Bea Boccalandro guides us to this future. Using engaging writing and sound research, she shows us that it’s possible to infuse every employee’s work with purpose in a way that benefits society, employees and the business. Do Good at Work is transformative: It turns its readers into inspired leaders.”
—Jan Jones Blackhurst, member of the Caesars Entertainment Board of Directors and former Mayor of Las Vegas
"I would put Do Good at Work as among the best business books ever—for both managers and non-managers. It's inspiring yet practical, eye-opening yet digestible and soundly researched yet deeply engaging. Its advice is so practical one wonders why it has taken so long for the word to get out."
—Cynthia Currin, Vice President, JBS International
“I fell in love with this book! It touched me in a personal way. Its self-effacing style makes it fun and super accessible. As a scientist, I run into a lot of books where I wonder ‘where’s the science in this?’ Not this one! In fact, I kept flipping to the back thinking ‘Whoa! She has another awesome reference.’ Do Good at Work is also replete with practical real-world people and real-world companies. It’s simply a really, really good book!”
Vic Strecher, Professor, University of Michigan Schools of Public Health and Medicine, Founder and CEO of Kumanu and author of Life on Purpose and the graphic novel, On Purpose
"As a professor and organizational/leadership development consultant, I have learned that to be a great, agile and future-ready organization or leader, we must be focused on lifting with purpose. We must do good at work. There is no better person to deliver this message than Bea Boccalandro. Do Good at Work should be on every leader's shortlist of books to read this year. I am excited for all of the good that will come to this world because of it."
—Ryan Gottfredson, author of Wall Street Journal and USA Today national bestseller, Success Mindsets
“Do Good at Work is a wonderful read that will inspire frontline workers, managers and leaders to enhance the work environment to create higher purpose and effect positive outcomes. In turn, this will provide value to employees, owners and communities—a win-win-win strategy. The author uses both quantitative research results and memorable anecdotes to make a compelling case for why we should all work to evolve and transform the workplace.”
—Tom Mutryn, CFO, CACI International and former CFO, US Airways
"I LOVED Do Good at Work! Its insightful writing provides compelling stories and characters throughout the book that drive home the impactful message that our jobs can provide us with more than just an income; they can provide us with a sense of purpose. Interesting, funny, and engaging, it is also packed with data-driven evidence and strategies to help workers at any level within their organization make their work more meaningful. I encourage everyone to pick up this book and make the investment in themselves; you'll be immensely glad you did."
—Chris Lacey, Founder and President, Autism ALERT, Inc.
About the Author
Bea also has 15 years of experience teaching business purpose and corporate social responsibility (CSR) at Georgetown University, Boston College and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Furthermore, her speeches across more than 50 countries have inspired tens of thousands of people to make their work more meaningful. She lives with her husband in San Clemente, California, where she frequently embarrasses herself as a beginner surfer. Learn more at www.BeaBoccalandro.com.
Product details
- ASIN : B08M16QRQH
- Publisher : Morgan James Publishing (November 24, 2020)
- Publication date : November 24, 2020
- Language : English
- File size : 1333 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 221 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #833,432 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,156 in Business Motivation & Self-Improvement (Kindle Store)
- #1,285 in Motivational Business Management
- #1,868 in Personal Success in Business
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About the author
Bea Boccalandro advises business leaders on igniting social purpose in the workplace and helps workers end their workday knowing they made a difference. She has twenty years of experience helping to make customer interactions more human, products more inclusive, meetings more meaningful, operations more environmentally sustainable, marketing more charitable and otherwise tilting everyday work toward a meaningful contribution. This do-good-at-work practice, termed “job purposing,” is a proven way to heighten workplace productivity, performance, satisfaction and personal wellbeing. It also improves business performance. Bea’s clients include Aetna, Allstate, Bank of America, Caesars Entertainment, Disney, Eventbrite, FedEx, HP, John Hancock, IBM, Levi's, PwC and Toyota. Bea is founder and president of VeraWorks, a global firm that helps businesses implement and measure the impact of pursuing social purpose. She is also a frequent keynote speaker and teaches at Georgetown University and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Bea can be seen drawing cartoons of innocent people anywhere she finds herself or trying to surf the waves of San Clemente, California, where she lives with her husband.
Learn more about Bea at www.BeaBoccalandro.com.
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What if you could make it just a bit more meaningful, more fulfilling, more worthwhile? What if you could make it significantly more so? Well, you don't need this book to tell you that you'd be happier AND better at your job.
But you probably need this book to actually make it happen. Do Good at Work is an easy and engaging read -- and a great toolkit for bringing purpose to your work. Whether you want some great ideas for your small business, or need to also back it all up with a compelling business case to make changes at your Fortune 500 company, this book is a great resource. You (and those you help) will be much better for it.
"Do Good At Work" is also brilliantly compelling and cogent. It reads like a series of wonderful short stories where, as readers, we are effortlessly pulled along. Bea's style conveys that of an awe-inspiring teacher, who makes learning enjoyable, and where we grow and learn beyond our expectations.
"Do Good At Work" is a treasure, destined to be a must-read for anyone who wants to make their work-life more rewarding and their lives, better.
Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2022
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Although I've made it a point to spend my adult life avoiding any kind of corporate workplace, I thought the values-based approach was excellent. If all companies had more of the kind of moral compass Bea Boccalandro champions, we wouldn't be in the state we're in now. It's also a book of broad appeal, and now that I've finished it, my teenage son is reading it avidly. Thoroughly recommended.
Bea has a pragmatic and deep understanding of the intersection of purpose and people and business never ceases to inspire everyone to do more and be more...for themselves and for the world.
This is a drawing she doodled while I was hosting a conference a few years ago...she always seems to capture the moment perfectly :)
In diesem Buch findet der Leser eine Menge Bespiele und auch praktische Tipps, um dem eigenen oder dem Arbeitsleben der Mitarbeiter einen guten Grund zu geben, sich zu engagieren. Bea Boccalandro lässt dieses Sachbuch durch ihre persönlichen Geschichten und ihren fabelhaften Humor wie eine unterhaltsame Reihe von zum Teil auch lustigen Kurzgeschichten wirken.
Dazu noch ihre Illustrationen… die perfekte Kombination um ihr geballtes Fachwissen dem Leser fröhlich und leichtfüßig nahe zu bringen.
Ich kann es kaum erwarten, dasss das Buch auch auf Deutsch erscheint!
Bis dahin lege ich allen die englische Version ans Herz und auch das Hörbuch lohnt sich. Da es von der Autorin selbst vorgetragen wird, kriegt man hier eine Extra-Portion ihrer tollen Art mit.
Reviewed in Germany on February 14, 2022
In diesem Buch findet der Leser eine Menge Bespiele und auch praktische Tipps, um dem eigenen oder dem Arbeitsleben der Mitarbeiter einen guten Grund zu geben, sich zu engagieren. Bea Boccalandro lässt dieses Sachbuch durch ihre persönlichen Geschichten und ihren fabelhaften Humor wie eine unterhaltsame Reihe von zum Teil auch lustigen Kurzgeschichten wirken.
Dazu noch ihre Illustrationen… die perfekte Kombination um ihr geballtes Fachwissen dem Leser fröhlich und leichtfüßig nahe zu bringen.
Ich kann es kaum erwarten, dasss das Buch auch auf Deutsch erscheint!
Bis dahin lege ich allen die englische Version ans Herz und auch das Hörbuch lohnt sich. Da es von der Autorin selbst vorgetragen wird, kriegt man hier eine Extra-Portion ihrer tollen Art mit.
It inspired changes in my organisation already and gave me the extra drive and data to move some conversations across the line. It has supported the way I lead, and helped me be more mindful of how to tilt the organisation toward social purpose, not just one or two people (though that's great too!)