Making a Living While Making a Difference is a timely and highly informative guide to a working life built on principled choices and an entrepreneurial attitude. It?s ?about? greener enterprises and technologies, socially responsible business, innovative nonprofit work, and reinventing government. It?s really about putting the pieces together with creativity and hope.
Working people everywhere are realizing that personal success is interconnected with healthy communities and the environment. We are all looking for our unique ?creative edge? with work that allows us to make an impact -- close to home and in the world.
The substantially revised third edition of Making a Living While Making a Difference acknowledges that while the path to finding a life?s work that is satisfying, sustainable and financially feasible is not easy, there are simple steps to follow. An empowering ten-step program includes:
- Paying attention to what you most care about.
- Stabilizing your life with regard to time, money and relationships.
- Assessing your core aptitudes and attitudes.
- Cultivating the entrepreneurial skills to create the workplace you want, whether or not you are in business for yourself.
With dozens of rich personal stories, and a thorough look at the options, this is the comprehensive life/work guide for people who care about their communities and the planet.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 331.702
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781550923605 9780865715912
- LCCN
- HF5381
- LCCN Item number
- E853 2007eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xx, 219 p.)
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00222745 (OCoLC)752592532 (CaOOCEL)432000
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Front Cover 1
- Advance Praise 2
- Title Page 4
- Rights Page 5
- Table of Contents 8
- Acknowledgements 10
- Introduction 12
- Part One: The Work to be Done 22
- Chapter 1: Organizing the Infinite: Fields of Opportunity 24
- Chapter 2: Work that Protects and Restores the Environment 36
- Chapter 3: Work that Protects and Restores Our Communities 50
- Chapter 4: Catalytic Occupations 60
- Part Two: The Ten Step Program for Principled Career Development 70
- Step 1: Wake Up 72
- Step 2: Stabilize Your Life 86
- Step 3: Create a Vibrant Support System 96
- Step 4: Understand the Landscape 108
- Step 5: Understand Yourself 122
- Step 6: Identify the Essence of Your Work in the World 144
- Step 7: Commit Yourself to Doing Your Work in Some Form, Whether or Not Anyone Is Paying You for It Right Now 162
- Step 8: Plan and Organize Your Campaign 178
- Step 9: Plan (and Prepare) to Work with the Unknown 192
- Step 10: Co-create the Workplace You Want 202
- Appendix 1: A Note to Career Counselors: Gatekeepers of a Positive Future 218
- Appendix 2: Making a Living and a Difference Internationally 222
- Appendix 3: Resources 228
- Endnotes 230
- Index 234
- About the Author 240
