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Check for Availabilityout of stock. Click on the button below to search for this title in other formats.  This title in other formats:Passion at Work: How to Find Work You Love and Live the Time of Your Life
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:#LINK "In today's 24/7 world, Passion at Work can help you find one thing that is far more important than money—meaning! An excellent book that combines making a living with making a difference." —Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, globally acclaimed author and thought leader on leadership, named by Forbes as one of five most respected executive coaches "Kang's engaging book offers really useful ideas for how to live in a way that aligns your actions with your values. Doing so brings passion to your work and to the rest of your life. Read it now—and let the passion flow!" —Dr. Stewart Friedman, Director of the Work/Life Integration Program, The Wharton School, named by Working Mother as one of the top 25 most influential people on work/family issues "Kang gives us a lens into ourselves. By mastering the Five Ps—passion, proficiency, priorities, plan, and prove—we can take control of our lives and careers. The book offers timely and relevant ideas and tips. Based on Kang's remarkable personal experiences and will, he infuses the reader with a sense of purpose, meaning, and confidence." —Dr. David Ulrich, Professor at Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, co-author of The HR Value Proposition "Passion—the 'magic bullet'—is at the core of achieving your potential. Passion at Work serves up a highly stimulating and compelling framework for self-reflecting and profiting—in every sense—by focusing on the one thing that matters most: staying true to your passion. Kang's own experiences and insights add keen perspective, while motivating any reader to act NOW." —Robert Hargadon, General Manager, Corporate Learning Group, Microsoft "To find and pursue your passion is to be truly alive! Passion at Work is a wonderful tool to turn your passion into practice." —Cynthia Good, CEO and Founding Editor, PINK magazine "It will surely motivate many people to take an aggressive approach in breaking the boundary between work and existence." —Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of Fooled by Randomness, selected by FORTUNE to be included with all-time classics such as The Wealth of Nations and The Art of War "Lawler Kang has written an impassioned work to help people find their own passion and satisfaction in their work. Equally important, drawing on his wide experience and insightful analysis, he also provides a practical and compelling roadmap on how to get there." —Daniel Yergin, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Prize and Commanding Heights "This is a lively and interesting book on understanding and planning your work within the framework of your whole life. The concepts of the end game and understanding your passions, proficiencies, and priorities in putting together a business plan for yourself are well presented and make a lot of sense. An invaluable tool for anyone, wherever you are in your career." —Michael Schoettle, Retired Partner, Heidrick and Struggles, world's premier executive placement firm Are you meant for greater things, but your job seems to be getting in the way? Regardless of where you are in your career, Passion at Work will show how to bring meaning to your work and provide the tools to powerfully align your passions, proficiencies, and priorities...creating a niche only you can dominate! Lawler Kang shares the lessons learned from his extraordinary twenty-year journey overcoming four life-altering operations—one leaving him in a coma, a wheelchair, and visibly disfigured—and then rising to pinnacles of business success. Building on insights gleaned from a Wharton MBA and fifteen years of managerial and consulting trench work, Kang offers straightforward business-based exercises to help you identify, actualize, monetize, and sell your passions to all relevant stakeholders, based on your particular openness to risk. This proven and pragmatic five-step process for discovering both what you are meant to do and how to do it has been hailed as a "breakthrough in sensible transitions" within or outside your current working domain. You can live your dreams, but only if you properly define them, treat them as goals, and generate concrete plans to achieve them. This book will unlock the confidence already inside you to start living on your terms, and help answer seemingly elusive questions such as:
© Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved. Synopsis:World-renowned speaker and executive Lawler Kang will show how to build a career one can be madly passionate about and create, actualize, and monetize a niche only you can dominate! Kang draws on the profound human stories of those who have followed their passions to achieve great things and live on their own terms. He then presents a unique Process of the Five PsTM: a start-to-finish blueprint for realizing your dreams, one step at a time. Learn how to discover passions, proficiencies, and priorities. Redefine success. Create realistic plans, complete with milestones and investments. Synopsis:Praise for "Passion at Work"<P>"In today' s 24/7 world, "Passion at Work "can help you find one thing that is far more important than money--meaning! An excellent book that combines making a living with making a difference."--Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, globally acclaimed author and thought leader on leadership, named by "Forbes" as one of five most respected executive coaches<P>"Kang' s engaging book offers really useful ideas for how to live in a way that aligns your actions with your values. Doing so brings passion to your work and to the rest of your life. Read it now--and let the passion flow!"--Dr. Stewart Friedman, Director of the Work/Life Integration Program, The Wharton School, named by "Working Mother" as one of the top 25 most influential people on work/family issues<P>"Kang gives us a lens into ourselves. By mastering the Five Ps--passion, proficiency, priorities, plan, and prove--we can take control of our lives and careers. The book offers timely and relevant ideas and tips. Based on Kang' s remarkable personal experiences and will, he infuses the reader with a sense of purpose, meaning, and confidence."--Dr. David Ulrich, Professor at Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, co-author of "The" "HR Value Proposition"<P>"Passion--the ' magic bullet' --is at the core of achieving your potential. "Passion at Work "serves up a highly stimulating and compelling framework for self-reflecting and profiting--in every sense--by focusing on the one thing that matters most: staying true to your passion. Kang' s own experiences and insights add keen perspective, while motivating any reader to act NOW."--Robert Hargadon, General Manager, CorporateLearning Group, Microsoft<P>"To find and pursue your passion is to be truly alive! "Passion at Work" is a wonderful tool to turn your passion into practice."--Cynthia Good, CEO and Founding Editor, "PINK "magazine<P>"It will surely motivate many people to take an aggressive ap
About the AuthorLawler Kang is one of this generation’s leading business consultants and inspirational speakers. After recovering from a neural aneurysm that left him in a coma and wheelchair, blind in one eye, and verbally challenged, he earned an MBA at The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania. His corporate experience includes helping to grow the U.S. subsidiary of a Japanese firm from $2 to $40 million in five years; consulting on data communication mergers and acquisitions exceeding $7 billion; and growing a technology consulting practice to almost 100 employees within a year. Lawler’s well-rounded business experience also allowed him to be a key leader in three successful technology turnarounds. Lawler has presented to a variety of audiences and has spoken at Wharton, Columbia, and Harvard Business School conferences. Mark Albion, who wrote the Foreword for Passion at Work, is the author of the bestseller, Making a Life, Making a Living. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. About the Authors. Foreword. Introduction. 1. Why Do You Work So Hard? 2. We Aren't Cats. 3. What Is the End Game? 4. The Magic Bullet. 5. A Process Overview. 6. The First P: Passion. 7. The Second P: Proficiencies. 8. The Third P: Priorities. 9. The Fourth P: Plan. 10. The Fifth P: Prove. 11. How Do I Prepare Myself for This Change? 12. Looking for Your Life's Work. References. Index.
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