The purpose linked organization : how passionate leaders inspire winning teams and great results

Meet the indispensable people who can bring your organization to that crucial next level. How many can you recognize? And where do you fit in? The Builder: Creating a strong sense of urgency to deliver results, they’re the driving force of a growing business The Connector: Born communicators, adept at negotiation and relationship-building The Conceiver: These “intellectual acrobats” think outside the box, imagine new possibilities, and contribute to innovation The Altruist: On the lookout to raise your organization’s profile while benefiting the world at large Leadership development experts Alaina Love and Marc Cugnon have identified ten such “Passion Profile Archetypes,” and in The Purpose Linked Organization, you’ll learn the strengths, vulnerabilities, and proper care and feeding of them all. Authors Love and Cugnon offer easily implementable ways to channel the power of each individual’s passions in a positive, purposeful direction. You’ll understand how to link skills, values, and passions to performance—and how doing so will bring the results your organization can’t afford to be without. Just as important, you’ll be able to confidently assess your own purpose and passions so thatyour own organizational role will be as engaging, fulfilling, and productive as possible. Most employees spend more than 84,000 hours of their lives at work. When that time is personally meaningful, great things can happen, which will enrich your organization, the customers it serves, and even society as a whole.

FREE WITH YOUR PURCHASE:

Exclusive access to “The Passion Profiler,” an online tool

for identifying your Passion Archetypes—your individual

strengths, vulnerabilities, and capacity for achievement, as

well as those of every member of your organization.

Work without passion and purpose?

Don’t you and your organization deserve better?

“Grow your business and inspire your team with the secrets of

purpose and passion in this highly practical book.”

—Marshall Goldsmith, bestselling author of

What Got You Here Won’t Get You There

“Smart leaders understand that productivity and innovation would be

greatly increased if only they could fully engage their people by putting

them in jobs that match their passions and talents; but how? The Purpose

Linked Organization provides a novel, practical, and no-nonsense

approach to help leaders accomplish that goal.”

—Henri Lipmanowicz, former president of Merck,

Intercontinental Region and Japan; chairman and cofounder of Plexus Institute

“This book is timely and essential for developing passionate leaders.”

—Virgil L. Smith, vice president, Gannett Co., Inc.

“If you’re a business leader searching for better ways to

develop your organization’s talent . . . don’t miss this book!”

—Joseph Pieroni, CEO, Daiichi-Sankyo

“Love and Cugnon offer leaders the missing link for boosting employee

performance beyond the level that skills and competence alone will allow.”

—Patricia O’Connell, management editor, BusinessWeek

Alaina Love, SPHR, is president and cofounder

of Purpose Linked Consulting and

the creator and author of many of the firm’s

leadership workshops and assessment tools.

Formerly a human resources executive at multinational

corporations, Love now provides

leadership, team, and organizational development

services to Fortune 500 firms, private

companies, hospitals, and universities.

Marc Cugnon is CEO and cofounder of

Purpose Linked Consulting. With over three

decades of experience as a senior executive in

the pharmaceutical industry, he now provides

leadership development, strategic planning,

and marketing consultation services to large

firms, small businesses, and international

universities.

Why purpose and passion matter Everyone has a passion profile The builder The conceiver The connector The creator The discoverer The processor The transformer The altruist The healer The teacher The journey to passion and purpose Getting results though purpose and passion How great leaders leverage passion. Identifying Passion Profile Archetypes; this book offers easily implementable ways to channel the power of each individuals passions in a positive; purposeful direction and help you to link skills; values; and passions to performance. -- Edited summary from book