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To Find Meaning in Your Work, Change How You Think About It

Harvard Business Review

Having observed friends and colleagues working with and without purpose for years, I’d offer the following advice on how to consciously endow your work with purpose regardless of your profession. Working with a sense of purpose day-in and day-out is an act of will that takes thoughtfulness and practice. Connect work to service.

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Rupert Murdoch, Customer Service Rep?

Harvard Business Review

This is a point in time where newspapers are trying to figure out how to be relevant," she told me. Half the battle is figuring out how much leeway your CEO should have, and how to manage a customer's expectations when a problem arises. or Dow Jones brand.

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25 Years Ago I Coined the Phrase ?Triple Bottom Line.? Here?s Why It?s Time to Rethink It.

Harvard Business Review

This idea infused platforms like the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI), influencing corporate accounting, stakeholder engagement and, increasingly, strategy. But the TBL wasn’t designed to be just an accounting tool.

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Corporations Weren’t Designed to Run on Code

Harvard Business Review

Its function is to grow companies by turning active economic activity into static bags of capital; in doing so, it has taken a liquid medium necessary for our economy’s circulation and frozen it in corporate accounts.