The key is to turn your vague desire for meaningful work into a specific mission.
The healthiest and happiest people stay engaged, and the smartest people stay engaged in meaningful work.
It's doing meaningful work and being valued for it--not picnics--that makes it all worthwhile.
And that takes away a lot of the incentive to find meaningful work.
Concerns were also raised over providing meaningful work for prisoners during the week, describing it as one of the centre's toughest challenges.
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Silly Dr. Hakim and silly us, pursuing economic independence and meaningful work.
The term is not brand new, but is being discussed more often as the millennial generation has developed a strong desire for meaningful work.
By reimagining what these jobs should look like we can help ensure that more young people find meaningful work building a more sustainable and resilient economy.
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Many others I know value both the opportunity to do meaningful work with people they respect, and be rewarded by recognition and salary increases and bonuses.
What Americans cite as their most important values are faith, family, meaningful work, giving back to the community, and of course, the material things in life.
Moreover, some of the HBS alumni who have agreed to offer work experience at their firms say they are unsure what meaningful work they can offer the students.
When we first envisioned this fellowship, one of our chief goals was to give students the valuable consulting experience that would lead to a career and meaningful work.
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That approach enables their key stakeholders to engage in meaningful work or other activities that mattered to them on teams, often in teams and in online communities that become increasingly close-knit.
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That combination of meaningful work experience, pay, perks and career opportunities lands the Capital Fellows Program on a new list of the nation's top internships, put out by career Web site Vault.com.
They found, based on a multi-year research project they undertook involving hundreds of companies, that of all the events that can deeply engage people in their jobs, the single most important is making progress in meaningful work.
Many early stage entrepreneurial companies are staffed by zealots as well, but very few of their managers realize that it is meaningful work, autonomy and the opportunity to "make a difference" that fuels this passion--not just monetary rewards.
Maybe all those commencement speakers would send more young people into the world likelier to be happy in their jobs if the speakers talked about love as a consequence of meaningful work instead of as the motivation for it.
So, as a leader, think about this: if your people are smart, and if they do want to get great results, how can you engage them in creating an organization where they can do good, meaningful work every day?
This paradigm, which combines meaningful work that can be graded at scale with peer-teaching among students, allows us to offer some of our best educational content to students around the world, at a negligible marginal cost of pennies per student.
As Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer suggest in The Progress Principle, we all yearn for more meaningful work where we get to use our best talents together, aptly supported by social enterprise software that leverages our capacity to accomplish greater things together.
Without rehashing every point, in one example, as software increasingly handles direct instruction, this will create big opportunities for teachers to facilitate rich and rewarding project-based learning experiences for their students to apply their learning into different contexts and gain meaningful work in the so-called 21st-century skills.
Research shows that even partial ostracism is quickly detected, and that lacking information that others in your group seem to have undermines not one but four fundamental human needs: the need for belonging and connection to others, self-esteem, the need for a sense of control and effectiveness, and the need for meaningful work.
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But more often they are simply excuses for doing the real work and experiencing the emotional discomfort inherent in making meaningful changes in our work and lives.
Kids are going to come here, get a meaningful degree and work hard to achieve that degree.
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They produce meaningful innovation in their work endeavors, and they give generously in their charitable endeavors.
His book advances a nested set of arguments on behalf of work that meaningful, because it is genuinely useful to identifiable people.
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You must make the most out of your career and perform in ways that allow you to feel that your work is meaningful and purposeful.
Or, will hedge fund managers finally put money to work in a meaningful way in the stock market?
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