Bestselling author Marcus Buckingham is a researcher and entrepreneur, and has a new book called Love and Work: How to Find What You Love, Love What You Do, and Do It for the Rest of Your Life. He says you don’t have to love all that you do, but if you have no love for any of your work then you won’t be creative, innovative, or resilient.
Marcus Buckingham: Why “Love” Is the Key to Career Success
If you don’t love anything about your work, it could destroy you.
April 15, 2022
Summary.
Researcher and author Marcus Buckingham says we’ve overly complicated what it means to lead. Leading people means checking in with an employee every week for 52 weeks out of the year. Asking about their successes and failures–big and small. Asking what they loved last week and what they hated. And then what they are focused on this week and how you can help. “Short-term past, short-term future. Because love lives in the detail,” he says. If you think to yourself, “Well, I’d love to do that, but I’m too busy leading,” then you’ve missed the point. This is leading.