The Purpose Linked Organization

The Purpose Linked Organization
How Passionate Leaders Inspire Winning Teams and Great Results

By:Alaina Love, Marc Cugnon
Date:May 4, 2009
Format:Hardback, 256 pages


ISBN:0071624708 / 9780071624701

Overview


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.

Table of contents

Introduction
PART ONE: PURPOSE AND PASSION
1: Why Passion and Purpose Matter
2: Everyone Has a Passion Profile
PART TWO: THE PASSION PROFILES
3: The Builder
4: The Conceiver
5: The Connector
6: The Creator
7: The Discoverer
8: The Processor
9: The Transformer
10: The Altruist
11: The Healer

PART THREE: PUTTING PASSION AND PURPOSE TO WORK
13: Getting Results through Passion and Purpose
14: How Great Leaders Leverage Passion
Biographical note

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.
Back cover copy

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