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A dramatic shift is taking place in industries everywhere: We have left behind a century dominated by increasing efficiency and are now living in an always-changing environment. Operating a business ...

Kate Ellis, a former English professor who taught at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, for more than 40 years, says she started teaching as a way to have a positive impact on others. In ...

Do you feel like what you do and who you are in the world matters? Do you have a sense that your actions are meaningful, and contribute to or benefit something that you care about? That’s your sense ...

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Young employees today have high expectations of doing “purpose-driven work” and seek to understand how their contributions add value to something bigger, significant, and lasting. In other words, ...

Many clients come into psychotherapy with a question about purpose. This can be about not knowing one’s “grand” purpose or feeling like one’s previous purpose or motivations for living have exhausted ...

A McKinsey survey on organizational purpose revealed some telling statistics: 82% of respondents believe it’s important for a company to have a purpose, and 72% said purpose should carry more weight ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. It used to be enough to drive profitability, but modern businesses (and their employees) now require a transcendent higher purpose. This ...

‘WHAT is biography for? What useful purpose does it serve? Why should one write it? What is its actual importance in the field of literature? Above all, what is autobiography for, and what proper ...