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Do Good At Work: How Simple Acts of Social Purpose Drive Success and Wellbeing Kindle Edition

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A delightful do-it-yourself guide to igniting meaning in any job.
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“Actionable and fun to read.”
—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 Boccalandro advises business leaders on igniting social purpose in the workplace and helps workers end their workweek knowing they made a difference. As founder and president of VeraWorks, a business purpose advisory firm, Bea has two decades of experience making customer interactions more human, products more inclusive, meetings more meaningful, operations more environmentally sustainable, marketing more charitable, and otherwise igniting purpose in the workplace. Her clients include Bank of America, Caesars Entertainment, Disney, CVS Health, Eventbrite, FedEx, HP, John Hancock, IBM, Levi's, PwC, TOMS Shoes, Toyota and Western Digital. Her work has been featured on FOX TV, Business Digest, Forbes and Harvard Business Review.

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
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 107 ratings

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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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My team and I chose this book for summer reading. It was an eye opening journey through purpose. We all loved it and loved talking through it each week. Bea gives practical things to do to achieve more purpose in our lives. Bea is brilliant and so is this book.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2023
Beas work and research offer a practical perspective for modern workforces. Passion-filled work is everyone's aspiration though it is not a reality for many in today's industries. This book helps you re-frame your every day life to help you identify how you connect with your passion and identify opportunities for how that translates in every role. If you manage people at work or find it tough to connect with your job, I highly recommend this book.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2023
Makes solid case for job purposing. The focuses, motives, and applications of these efforts in some cases may have mixed opinions of relative importance, but the principles are good. She says the motives to do inner self good to others is based on evolutionary conditioning. I'd suggest it's based on being created in God's image with core desire to love. All humanity is plagued with the selfish sinful nature, but book gives nice encouragement to make the world better (in my opnion motivated by and for God's love and His glory) each day in your work.
Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2023
This book really helped me build out strategies to help employees find their own purpose and social impact for the good of others.
Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2020
So much is wrapped up in our work. We invest countless hours in it, and in turn it affects our health, how we feel, and our identity.

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.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2023
I loved this book, gives so much insight and ways to incorporate things in your job and life to make them more meaningful and have social purpose!! A must read!
Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2020
Bea Boccalandro's wonderful new book, "Do Good At Work" is just what the world needs right now! It is straightforward, eye-opening, and also, endearing. She has seamlessly woven together heartfelt stories of workers who have new-found purpose, while including academic research to help us understand how and why these examples work.

"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.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2021
This is a well written book with a compelling message that builds on the lessons of another book I really liked, "First Break All the Rules" by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman. After I finished "Do Good At Work," I continue to think about what I have read. In fact, I plan to share copies the book with the board members of a service organization that I belong to. I spent time with the president-elect this morning and we discussed the potential to use the book as guidance to open up a whole new avenue of service for our members.
Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2022
My team and I chose this book for summer reading. It was an eye opening journey through purpose. We all loved it and loved talking through it each week. Bea gives practical things to do to achieve more purpose in our lives. Bea is brilliant and so is this book.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2022
My team and I chose this book for summer reading. It was an eye opening journey through purpose. We all loved it and loved talking through it each week. Bea gives practical things to do to achieve more purpose in our lives. Bea is brilliant and so is this book.
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G R Burt
5.0 out of 5 stars A moral compass for businesses
Reviewed in Spain on April 26, 2024
This is an excellent book: engagingly written and packed with examples, anecdotes and personal reflection to support and enhance the lessons and arguments. Whether you're an entrepreneur, a small business owner, a workplace manager or a CEO, there's important, timely advice here.

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.
Wendy Mitchell
5.0 out of 5 stars Looking for something more from your work?
Reviewed in Canada on January 24, 2021
If you're looking for something more from your work, then you need to get your hands on Bea Boccalandro's new book Do Good at Work. It's a collection of inspiring examples of how incorporating social purpose into your job or career can completely change your path, your attitude and your well-being.

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 :)
Ila
5.0 out of 5 stars “Do good at work” von Bea Boccalandro ist ein absolut empfehlenswertes Buch!
Reviewed in Germany on February 14, 2022
“Do good at work” von Bea Boccalandro ist ein absolut empfehlenswertes Buch! Nicht jeder Beruf macht es möglich, sich auf einem Boot von Greenpeace gegen die Ausbeutung der Ozeane zu wehren. Doch in jedem Beruf ist es möglich, etwas zu finden, dass dem eigenen Tun und Handeln (mehr) Sinn gibt. Ein Grund mehr oder überhaupt ein Grund, warum man morgens mit einem Lächeln aufsteht und seiner beruflichen Tätigkeit nachgeht.
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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars “Do good at work” von Bea Boccalandro ist ein absolut empfehlenswertes Buch!
Reviewed in Germany on February 14, 2022
“Do good at work” von Bea Boccalandro ist ein absolut empfehlenswertes Buch! Nicht jeder Beruf macht es möglich, sich auf einem Boot von Greenpeace gegen die Ausbeutung der Ozeane zu wehren. Doch in jedem Beruf ist es möglich, etwas zu finden, dass dem eigenen Tun und Handeln (mehr) Sinn gibt. Ein Grund mehr oder überhaupt ein Grund, warum man morgens mit einem Lächeln aufsteht und seiner beruflichen Tätigkeit nachgeht.
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.
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laurence szucs
5.0 out of 5 stars I love "Do Good At Work" so much that I'm giving it to others!
Reviewed in Australia on October 10, 2021
Wow, what a beautiful read! The tone is wonderful and it’s extra generous in how well communicated and easy the ideas are to comprehend. I cried multiple times whilst listening to it on Audible (the book also has a spot on my desk). I love it so much that I am buying for the members of a newly formed work team.

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!)
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