Passion at Work: How to Find Work You Love and Live the Time of Your Life - Hardcover

Kang, Lawler; Albion, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0131854283 ISBN 13: 9780131854284

Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall, 2005

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.   

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"I am smart. I work hard. I’m good at what I do. Why don’t I feel like I’m succeeding?"
Are you meant for greater things, but your job seems to be getting in the way? If you've been settling for a mere job or paycheck – STOP! You CAN work your passions and find your Life’s Work!
Regardless of where you are in your career, Passion at Work offers you a proven five-step process for discovering what you are meant to do... and then shows you, step by step, how to do it!
Lawler Kang shows how to find the mission that brings you the deepest meaning, and the tools to decipher your most powerful combination of passions, proficiencies and priorities to create a niche only you can dominate! You'll set day-to-day priorities for moving toward your goal, preparing tactical roadmaps, milestones, budgets, marketing plans... just what you’d do to launch a business, plan a project... except this time, you’re going to change your life!
Kang shares epiphanies 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. Lawler also draws on commanding stories of others who have shared in the same profound discovery – that each of us already has the power within to take the reins of our future. The major takeaway- working your passions means living (happily!) on your terms, however you define them.
Based on insights gleaned from a Wharton MBA and 15 years of managerial trench work, Lawler presents straightforward business-based exercises to help you identify, actualize, monetize, and sell your plan to all relevant stakeholders. Why? Because you possess a unique combination of purpose and proficiencies that can be successfully released and put into action. And this book will give you the confidence to treat your dreams as goals and generate concrete plans to continually achieve them.
Read this book and you will find your own answers to-
· Why are you working so hard?
What’s your end game? Shouldn’t it be more than merely a fistful of dollars?
· Discovering your passion
Don’t just search for your life’s work...find it and make it happen!
· Assessing your proficiencies
What are you great at and love to do? How can you make every minute of "work" fun and profitable at the same time?
· Setting your priorities
Recognize what reallymatters in your work and life... creating your own, confident definitions of wealth and success
· Making your plan
Bring the "new you" to market, step-by-step
· Proving your planGet buy-in, get funded, and get cracking!

About the Author:

Lawler 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0131854283
• ISBN 13: 9780131854284
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272