This document summarizes a presentation about bringing passion and purpose to executive job searches. The presentation discusses discovering one's passions and purposes through exercises like a passion pyramid and priority matrix. It emphasizes finding work that aligns with one's values, strengths, priorities and dreams. The presentation provides tools and strategies for using the results of these self-discovery exercises to guide career decisions and focus a job search.

1. Creating Your Life‘s Work:
How to Bring Passion and Purpose to Your
Executive Job Search
Presenter: Lawler Kang, Passion at Work Partners
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2. Vivian
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3. My thesis: your happiness (a.k.a. performance!)
Why + How >What
Purposes Talents
Passions Values
Priorities
Experiences
Dreams
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4. Passion = performance = profits
―The good-to-great companies
focused on those activities that
ignited their passions. The idea
here is not to stimulate passion but
to discover what makes you
passionate.‖
—Jim Collins, Good to Great
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5. ―Know thyself.‖
-Socrates
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6. Presentation topics
Why bring your passions and purposes to work?
Benefits of bringing them
A Process run through
How to use these findings in your search
Your role(s) as leaders
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7. Employees aren‘t happy or productive
$300
Billion
Actively disengaged
Acting out their
unhappiness and
undermining what their 19% Disengaged
engaged coworkers Putting in time,
accomplish but not energy
52% or passion
29%
Engaged
Working with passion
and feel
a connection to their
company
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8. Any regrets?
1. Wish they had the courage to live a life true to themselves, not
what other people expect of them
2. Wish they had the courage to express their feelings
3. Wish they had stayed in touch with friends
4. Wish they had let themselves be happier
5. Wish they hadn‘t worked so hard
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9. Why do you work so hard?
They who retire with the most money win (?!?)
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10. How do you want to make your mark?
YOU
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11. We all have a core of steel
30,000 15% (4,500) – 2 minutes
50% (12,750) – within a month
cases per year 50% (6,375) – paralysis, mental
retardation, loss of faculties
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12. Reflections
2 mm – 1 in 50
We aren‘t cats…
Make friends with your past!
Whatever you do…
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13. The Dividend: Wall Street to passive investors
―You know why kids love athletes?‖
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14. The power to be happy
1. Don‘t equate happiness
with money
2. Exercise regularly
3. Have sex (preferably with
someone you love)
4. Seek work that engages your
skills, look to enjoy your job
5. Sleep
Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein
Global Equity Strategy Group
June 17, 2004
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15. Upend the notion of work/life balance
Is balance possible?
It‘s all life!
Does this metaphor apply?
You should enjoy your work!
Not ―balance‖ Priority
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16. Some sound financial advice
―NEVER do what you don‘t
enjoy.
Doing so is like saving SEX
for your old age.
NOT a very good idea.‖
-Warren Buffet
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17. How to emotionally engage with your work
Five questions:
1. What is my mission/purpose (―iki gai‖)?
2. What are my passions?
3. At what can I be the best (and love to do)?
4. Does my work fit my priorities?
5. Are my dreams being supported by my work?
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18. A Process to generate your Why and How
Passion Pyramid Personal Balance Sheet Priority Matrix
Strengths/Weaknesses
Values
Releases Criteria
Experiences
Passions Rankings
Dreams
Purposes Planning
Founder‘s Stock
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19. Pyramid: What is my impassioned purpose?
HOW do I want to Purposes/
make my mark? personal missions
WHY have I loved…? Meta-passions
WHAT have I loved…? Releases
Education/ What at
Career Life Inspirations
11/12?
Dislikes
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20. Releases: What have I loved?
Education/ What at
Life Inspirations
Career 11/12?
Bio/Chem BS Playing w/kids Chemistry My Parents
Set –
Customer Coaching kids in running Healthcare –
Delight sports and life experiments Leading Better
Driving Bus. Change lives
Maintain Medicine-
Planning & Execution happiness for media - CIO at Nortel – CS
wife/kids hospitals background – took
Managing Innovation on tech
Manage
investments Pharmacia CEO –
Hitting Targets/Milestones Building
passion; pharma
Vacationing – things: snow
knowledge;
Building Orgas learning via travel forts - wood
pedigree/sales;
toys
Coaching vs. Mentoring Listening to music communication
skills, execution
Seeing reports blossom Keeping up w/kids - results
snowboarding Mother Theresa
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21. Meta-passions: Why I have loved?
Caring for people
Improving things
Making a difference
Continually evolving & growing
Personal & family enjoyment
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22. Purpose/personal mission: His Mark
Provided
security and
happiness to
my family
Cared About People:
Reports/Peers/Commu
nity/Neighbors/
Customers/Clients/End
Users/Strangers
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23. Pyramid: Can Provided explain and guide
security and
happiness to my family
HOW do I want to make Cared About People: Purpose/
Reports/Peers/Community/Ne
my mark? ighbors/ personal mission
Customers/Clients/End
Users/Strangers
Caring for people
Improving things
WHY have I Making a difference
Meta-passions
loved…? Continually evolving & growing
Personal & family enjoyment
Bio/Chem BS Playing w/kids My Parents
Coaching kids in
WHAT Customer Delight
sports and life
Chemistry Set
Healthcare – Leading
Driving Bus. Change
have I Planning & Execution Maintain happiness
– running
experiments
Better lives Releases
CIO at Nortel – CS
loved…? Managing Innovation for wife/kids
Manage investments background – took on tech
Medicine-
Hitting Targets/Milestones Vacationing – learning media - Pharmacia CEO – passion;
via travel hospitals pharma knowledge;
Building Orgas
Listening to music Building things: pedigree/sales; communication
Coaching vs. Mentoring skills, execution results
Keeping up w/kids - snow forts - wood
Seeing reports blossom snowboarding toys Mother Theresa
Education/Career Life What at 11/12? Inspirations
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24. Personal Balance Sheet: Leverage strengths, retire dreams
Assets Liabilities
Question is: How do you want to
use your Founder‘s Stock, the
Short Term Talents
most valuable part of your Balance
Great at and love doing Deficient at/Dislike
Sheet, leveraging your strengths
360+
while recognizing your liabilities, to
realize your dreams?
Long Term Values
Allow me to excel Hold me back/Dislike
Subtract age
Is this what from 78
your Experiences (Male)
―customers‖ I want to draw on Still want to have (dreams) 84 (Female)
need? and multiply
by 52
Engaging your Founders Stock
stakeholders: last time?
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25. Example Assets Liabilities
Short Term Talents
Listening/Connecting/Comm
Facilitating Managing Up Adhering to processes
unicating
Team-building Accounting Turning off my brain
Leadership
Creating Redundancy Saying No
Evaluating and
Inspiring Marketing-speak
placing people
Long Term Values
Passionate Trusting Sleepwalking Politics/Agendas
Creative/Curious Loving Blaming others Denial/Not questioning
Optimistic Irreverent Confrontation/aggres Ego-driven
Accountable Stalwart sion Myopic/Me first thinking
Experiences
Writing/communicating Networks from Raising happy, educated hooligans
various experiences Seeing Teahapoo break
Insights from life- Traveling the world speaking to people w/family
changing events Rush of being alive
and helping Inciting massive changes in the way we live
Perspective of raising kids Love of those around BEing with Dawn, every day, until I die
me
Founders Stock
1,768 weeks
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26. Priorities: What is most important to you?
The Matrix: Life Example
If the column (blue) entry is more important than the row (gray) entry, enter 1; if not enter 0.
Work Money Activities Family Friends Priority
Work 1 1 0 1 3
Money 0 1 0 0 1
Activities 0 0 0 0 0
Family 1 1 1 1 4
Friends 0 1 1 0 2
It is tremendously easier getting what you
want, if you know what you want!
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27. Example Matrix: Work
Pay Respect Team Leadership Impact Growth Location Priority
Pay 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
Respect 1 1 0 1 0 1 4
Team 1 1 0 0 0 1 3
Leadership 1 0 1 0 0 0 2
Impact 1 0 1 1 0 1 4
Growth 1 1 1 1 1 0 5
Location 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
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28. Example Matrix: Motivation
New Priority
Salary Flexibility Bonus Recognition Stability Respect
Tech
Salary 0 1 0 0 0 1 2
Flexibility 1 1 0 0 0 0 2
Bonus 1 1 0 0 0 1 3
Recognition 1 1 1 0 1 1 5
Stability 1 0 1 0 0 1 3
Respect 1 1 1 1 1 1 6
New Tech 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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29. How do I use
these findings in
my search?
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30. What have we just done?
Potentially answered some very powerful and guiding questions
Answers are filters  how do you want to allocate your most valuable asset?
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31. Filters to allocate your Founder‘s Stock
Does this ―opportunity‖…
Help me work my purposes/personal missions?
Leverage my meta-passions and
releases/experiences?
Draw on my strengths?
Fall into my values set?
Fit with my priorities?
Help me realize my dreams?
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32. …and look to your outputs for guidance
Look for patterns in your outputs: think inside YOUR box!
Use for your current search activities, reinforce/revisit your career path,
retirement plans?
How will I proactively allocate my Founder’s Stock to help me
realize my dreams?
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33. Matrices can have many uses for search
Compensation: whatever is important to you!
Additional common criteria: benefits, vacation time, flex-time, working
remotely, commuting costs, mobility, recognition, working with cool
people, great boss/leader, making an impact/meeting my mission/purpose
Location(s) to live/work: particular city/geography/country, setting
(urban/suburban)
Travel requirements (and destinations)
Comparing offers!
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34. More specific your criteria, better your outputs
Commute?
hour ‗door to desk‘ with 45 mins via train
greater than 30 minutes by car
less than 30 minutes by car
etc.
Compensation?
salary $250k min, bonus max 20%
salary $200k min, bonus max 30%, options vesting 3 years
salary $175k, no bonus, preferred shares
etc.
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35. Translate criteria to Action!
Develop Guiding Principles for your top 2 or 3 ranking criteria
Criteria Principle: Success Measures, Action Plans, Due Dates
What next steps—particularly the first one—
must I take to fulfill this priority?
Lose (and keep Schedule 40 min workouts 3x/week 5/13/12
Focus on my
off) 10 pounds. Walk the dog 3x/week 5/11/12
health
Lower my stress. Meditate 10 mins/day 5/11/12
Look for work Identify 7 Get out a map and draw a 45 min circle 5/14/12
within 30 minute Research employers by town 5/21/12
employers
car commute Be open to additional opportunities
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36. Additional app: personal brand impacts
Positioning/Target markets  At what can you be the best?
Identity  What is behind your brand?
Promise  What will you (passionately) deliver?
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37. Additional app: make your resume memorable
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38. Anyone want to be a legend?
Courage
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39. Recent Realizations at Microsoft
―Where does the bond come from that creates
common purpose?‖ he posed.
―I agree that belief in a cause starts with
believing in who you are as an individual.
Every individual is capable of leaving a
legacy,‖ he said.
―That legacy comes from being real at all
times. The only person who can determine
relevancy to yourself is you.‖
—Orlando Ayala,
Worldwide Sales Manager, Microsoft
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40. What is holding you back?
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41. Back to your future…
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42. Please visit our site or contact us to purchase a signed
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