Love + Work
About This Book
We are living through a crisis of stress and anxiety, and a worldwide pandemic has only deepened it. Life expectancy in the United States has fallen, and below 16 percent of workers say they are fully engaged in their jobs. In demanding fields such as warehouse distribution, emergency nursing and classroom teaching, PTSD appears more often than among soldiers returning from war zones. Buckingham argues that we are getting something badly wrong: our workplaces and schools have been built with love engineered out, leaving one of humanity's most basic needs unmet. Buckingham's central claim is that love behaves like energy. It has to move, and it finds its outlet in work. Whether the work is a professional achievement, a relationship, or the way we cope with life's setbacks, the results fall short unless love is part of it. Learning, innovation, service and lasting growth all depend on love, so love and work cannot be separated. The book begins by describing what a loveless working life looks like and tracing how we arrived there. It then turns to the way people grow best in response to one another. Buckingham asks what a strong working partnership looks like when each person understands the other's loves, and what a high-performing team looks like when its members reflect and magnify one another's loves. The final section considers how love can be brought back into professional life as a positive force. Readers learn how to identify their own loves by examining ordinary daily routines, and how to turn that practice into a discipline sustained over a lifetime. Buckingham's message is that love too often comes last at work, with painful consequences, and that it should come first, along with a path for making that happen.
ISBN: 9781647821234
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