Creating Significance: Choosing to Do Our Best Work

Creating Significance: Choosing to Do Our Best Work

31mGeneral2023-05-24

Authors

Seth Godin

Seth Godin

Author, Entrepreneur, and Teacher

Course details

Ever wondered how to become more active and committed to creating innovative, significant work? Entrepreneur and best-selling author Seth Godin shares insights you can put into practice, regardless of your current role or level of experience, to start building a more cocreative, future-ready organization.

Gather insights and practical advice on applying the five principles of significant work: cultivating the right conditions to do work that matters; making choices more deliberately; acting as a leader, not just a manager; embracing ambiguity; and developing essential skills to succeed. Along the way, find out what it takes to move away from the fear-based status quo of hierarchical leadership, so you can stay focused on more meaningful work in the long run and inspire everyone on your team to want to lead.

Skills covered

Personal DevelopmentProfessional DevelopmentOne-Off

Concepts

Introduction

  • How to engage with work
  • Work isn't working
  • The five principles of significant work

Principle 1 - Significant Work Is the Future

  • Creating the conditions to do work that matters
  • Moving past industrialism

Principle 2 - Significant Work Is a Choice You Make

  • Making the choice to do significant work

Principles 3 - Significant Work Requires Leaders, Not Managers

  • Page 19 thinking
  • Standards instead of obedience
  • Enrollment instead of coercion

Principle 4 - Significant Work Requires Ambiguity

  • Withholding definition
  • Avoiding false proxies

Principle 5 - Significant Work Requires Essential Skills

  • Earning the blue card

Conclusion

  • The song of significance
  • Getting to the moon together
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