Making a Life, Making a Living
Reclaiming Your Purpose and Passion in Business and in Life
Warner Books, 2000
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Career & Self-Development
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- How to free yourself from your resume in order to live your life
- Why you should put the personal costs of quitting a job into perspective
- Why it is important to bring your personal values to the workplace
Why you should read Making a Life, Making a Living
Mark Albion addresses "successful" businesspeople who feel as if their personal lives are not successful. He believes life is too short to work at something that has no value to you. He presents real stories from his own life and the lives of others interspersed with uplifting quotes from philosophers, poets, and celebrities. While the stories - a selection of which are abstracted below - make for interesting reading, this book might be a little too "warm and fuzzy" for some readers. Albion paints a perfect world where all people work at jobs they enjoy, but he doesn’t spend enough time addressing the real difficulties involved in making a major life change. The shortage of specific instruction makes this book more valuable as a tool for inspiration than as a "step-by-step" guide to changing your lifestyle. getAbstract recommends this book for people who are unhappy with their current jobs and considering making a career change.
About the Author
Mark Albion is a twenty-year veteran faculty member at Harvard University and Harvard Business School. He helped launch Net Impact, an international not-for-profit network of MBA’s committed to a better world. More than one million business executives in 87 countries read his newsletter, Making a Life. BusinessWeek named him the "savior of B-school souls."
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