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THE WHY OF WORK
than easily derailed outward expedience. Walmart clerks
who experience abundance can take pride in Walmart’s
commitment to low prices that help struggling families.
While abundant organizations won’t necessarily turn around
divorce rates or stop drug addiction, they can be a societal
force for meaning and purpose that counteracts ennui and
despair both inside and outside company walls.
Whether you are an individual employee looking for a
reason to get up for work every day, a manager of a team or
division wanting to build employee productivity and engage-
ment within your unit, or the leader of an entire organization
committed to values, objectives, policies, results, and stories
that make for great places to work, abundance is a relevant
agenda. The next chapter provides an overview of seven
questions and seven fields of inquiry that help promote this
meaning-making, value-creating, hope-building process at
all levels of organizational life.
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