Working on Purpose

Working on Purpose

Hosted by: Alise Cortez, PhD

Do you want to help create a world where people are passionate about their work, inspirational leadership helps team members realize their greatness, and capitalism thrives while serving the highest causes? Me too....

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How Leaders Provoke the Future by Overcoming Fatal Human Flaws

At a time with ever increasing change and uncertainty, it is extremely challenging to set a course direction in business. As the pandemic has highlighted, successfully navigating this uncertainty can be the difference...
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SanityDesk: Behold the Possibility of a Better Digital World

Samuel Cook learned a thing or two about how precious and fleeting life is during his tours serving in the US Army and losing a brother early. Those experiences instilled a steadfast determination to do all the...
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Planksip: A Bold New Venture in Digital Publishing

Behold a new frontier of organically grown thought leaders, courtesy of the philosophy and culture media outlet, Planksip. On this platform, emerging writers and thought leaders have the opportunity to literally sip...
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Business Leadership for a Human-Centric Future

A call for human-centric organizations is in order, says Executive Advisor and Futurist Deborah Westphal. This new organization embraces the messiness and beauty of people, iterates policies and procedures, and...
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Standing in Her Purpose to Lift and Empower Women

Natalie Benamou found her career of 29 years entirely altered when Covid hit. Her world came to a crashing halt when trade shows were cancelled right and left. Doors were swiftly closing everywhere. And that’s where...
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Bigotry is Everywhere: The Unspoken in Diversity and Inclusion

Much of what traditional diversity programs teach is wrong … and sometimes illegal. The EEOC said that our focus needs to be more on building skills so we can create an environment of workplace civility, which means...
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Nature: The Perfect Antidote to Today’s Spiritual and Well-Being

In an age when people ache for meaning and purpose, there is a tremendous opportunity to connect with nature to let in its wonder. Doing so affords emotional and spiritual well-being and can awaken the path to...
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The Trumanitarian on Bringing Agency and Non-Hierarchy to Orgs

Lars Peter Niessen has managed to find a special niche most of us like to avoid – he’s got a knack for working productively in “messes” and has done so all over the world. His mission through the organization he has...
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Instead of You Laboring, Why Not Put Your Purpose to Work?

Most people lack the clarity of who they really are and seem to be in an endless search for a better job. And this is the problem; people are looking for a good job, the ideal job, instead of first figuring out their...
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Passionately Striving in “Why” Authors Gather

People are yearning to tune in to their unique reason for being, desperately seeking ways to matter. Purpose is available to anyone, anywhere in the world, and when we discover and serve from it, we encounter...
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Wild Alive Scratching for Meaning and Purpose

The ache for meaning and purpose can quite literally drive us to insane ends. Ask Ken Banks. His pursuit of meaningful work that makes an impact took him to do volunteer development work Zambia and Uganda, work at a...
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B Corps: Business as a Force for Profit and Purpose

It’s hard to remember the times when people began a business, in order to make a “boat load of money.” Of course, that still happens. But more and more people are looking for ways to balance profit and purpose through...
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