A Higher Purpose
Living a Life of Meaning and Significance
A complimentary e-book courtesy of Jim Reger
“This book is a collection of thoughts about finding meaning and purpose in our lives. Most of the thoughts are mine, but I have included quotes from other individuals as well that I found inspiring. These thoughts and quotes are loosely organized into seven chapters but they can be read in almost any order and, as none of them are longer than a few sentences, you can spend a few seconds or a few minutes reading and then put the book down. The entire book can be read in an hour or two.
My wish is that you find some inspiration to continue your own individual journey towards finding meaning and significance in your life.”
Jim Reger
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Download David Irvine’s free whitepapers.
“Whitepapers” are a common term in business. What does that mean anyway? David offers a series of short essays he prefers to think of as guidebooks on the journey to better living and leading. Enjoy!
Navigating Your Way Through Chaos – Workbook
It’s an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we’ve lost our way. In times of crisis and disruption, the most important thing we can do is, first and foremost, resist the natural human tendency to get caught up in anxiety, fear, and busyness, and stop and get our bearings. Being there for others requires us to first be there for ourselves. You have to put the oxygen mask on yourself first. Taking responsibility for meeting our own needs enables us to better respond to the needs of others. Caring then comes from overflow rather than emptiness. I offer you a map for reading your internal compass in four areas: your inner state, your values, your needs, and your purpose and vision.
Navigating Your Way Through Chaos – Workbook
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Authentic Leadership in a Disrupted World
David offers eight strategies for strengthening your authenticity in order to effectively lead in times of chaos. Regardless of your title or position, there is an opportunity to deepen and strengthen your presence so you can have a greater positive impact on those you influence and those who depend on you for leadership. While these tactics are designed to help you face the current reality of COVID-19, they are also intended to prepare you to navigate uncharted waters of an uncertain future.
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Embracing Change
A Road Map for Navigating the Transformational Journey
To survive – and thrive – you have to adapt and embrace change. When you have made a decision to be a leader, you become an agent of change. But where is your road map? Where are your tools? There are eight stages of change. The first is chaos; the eighth is possibility. Once you lead yourself and others to embrace possibility, transforming chaos into confidence, resistance into wisdom, and fear into possibility, you have done your job. Learn a practical approach to embracing and leading your people through the stages of change.
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Connectivity
Bringing Authenticity to Relationships.
In every interaction, there is an onstage presentation, the words that are said and the body language expressed, as well as “backstage”: underlying feelings, thoughts, judgments, fears, stories, and interpretations that are not spoken and are kept hidden.
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The Art of Leadership and the Science of Management
In a time that has focused on leadership development, management has inadvertently taken a bad rap. We’ve all heard about the difference between management and leadership. Management, we are told, is about “doing things right,” while leadership is about “doing the right things.” Management is about forecasting, budgeting and controlling, while leadership is about mentoring, inspiring and unleashing. Management is about things, while leadership is about people. Management is transactional and leadership is transformational.
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How to Hold People Accountable
Far too often, tasks are assigned to employees in a haphazard way, hoping that the worker will “figure it out” and deliver an adequate, even superior, performance. If this is your accountability process, you will soon realize that ‘hope’ is not a very effective strategy. There is a practical process for holding people accountable – in a way that fosters trust, respect, open communication and gets a grip on results.
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Becoming Real
Great cultures aren’t built in a linear, tidy fashion. Like building a cohesive marriage or family, it’s a messy process that involves clarity, disciplined action, and perseverance.
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Creating Workplace Culture by Design
If you are committed to attract and retain the best talent, provide the best possible service to customers, get a grip on results that matter, remain profitable, and reach your fullest potential as an organization, then culture will be your most critical competitive advantage. This is because organizational culture trumps everything else in business. Learn the essentials of designing and building a high performing organizational culture that will unleash the potential of your people.
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Protecting Your Talent Asset
Are You Taking Care Of Your Best Employees?
The best CEOs and executive teams are committed to taking care of their best employees. They understand that taking care of your talent asset is one of the best high-return investments to be made today. They know that when it comes to attracting and keeping your best people, rhetoric is simply not enough. Taking care of your talent asset is like taking care of your health. If you aren’t intentional about it, if you aren’t strategic about it, if you don’t have consistent habits surrounding it, it simply won’t happen. Learn the four fundamental keys and accompanying strategies that must be in place to protect your talent asset.
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Layoffs, Survivors, and Building A Great Culture
If your business is at all connected to the oil patch, layoffs have become so common these past five years that it is unusual to meet a senior manager who hasn’t had to manage a reduction in their work force or isn’t in the midst of planning one. The decision to execute a layoff and the choice of who is to be laid off can be so wrenching that many managers have little energy left to consider what happens after the layoff.
Layoffs, Survivors, and Building A Great Culture
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The Making of a Leader
It’s About PRESENCE, Not Position
Leaders aren’t defined by the size of their office. Leaders are defined by the difference they make. While you might get promoted to being a boss, you don’t get promoted to being a leader. You have to earn the right to be called a leader by your ability to influence and your capacity to achieve results through others. Learn the fundamentals of leadership that will enable you to lead with presence, not position.
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Accountability
Getting A Grip On Results
With everyone talking about the need for more accountability in the work place, why is it that accountability is so likely to turn people off? Why is it that unearned entitlement remains so prevalent, both in the workplace and in society? You have to get to the deep meaning and application of accountability. If you don’t, it becomes a hammer to blame and punish people, or at best, just another organizational buzzword. Learn a proven and practical philosophy and approach to accountability that helps leaders build trust, respect, and integrity, banish blame and fear, transform entitlement into ownership, close the gap between intention and success, and get a grip on results.
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Building Trust
Your First Accountability As A Leader
Trust is the keystone of success in work and in life. It is the new global currency. It crosses cultures and generations. Trust is perhaps the most important issue facing the world today and lies at the foundation of every relationship. Building and restoring trust is your number one challenge, and your number one accountability as a leader. Building Trust, one of our e-books that forms the framework for our accountability program, outlines our hands-on, down-to-earth approach to building and restoring trust in your workplace and in your life.
Building Trust
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Leading with Unusual Clarity
The Art Of Intentional Living
Leaders must lead with clarity. Without clarity of purpose, life is a merely a series of meaningless reactions to requests. Without clarity of vision people flounder. Without clarity of values, workplaces are merely “busy factories” consumed by the tyranny of urgency. Leading With Unusual Clarity, one of our e-books that form the framework for our on-line accountability program, outlines our hands-on, down-to-earth approach to clarifying your mission, vision, and values. Most importantly, you will learn how to turn inspiring statements into accountable action.
Leading with Unusual Clarity
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Engaging Employees
Take The Leadership Challenge
A recent Gallup poll on employee engagement declared that 71 percent of North American workers are not fully engaged in their work. This means that roughly two-thirds of all employees are less than highly motivated to be productive, ultimately affecting customer satisfaction, profitability, innovation, and rising costs. Learn how to stand apart as a leader who connects to people’s passion and unique gifts, taps into their innate desire to contribute, brings out the best in others, builds an inspiring workplace environment, and gets beyond compliance to real engagement.
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Accountable Leadership
Guiding And Achieving Results
With everyone talking about the need for more accountability in the work place, why is it that accountability is so likely to turn people off? Why is it so difficult to inspire people to be accountable? Why is accountability in such high demand today? Unless we clarify accountable to whom, for what specific results, and with what consequences, accountability remains an illusion. You have to get to the deep meaning and application of accountability. If you don’t, it becomes a hammer to blame and punish people or at best, just another organizational buzzword. This e-book gets to the heart of what it takes to be an accountable leader.
Accountable Leadership
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Building Value Through Values
How To Make What Matters Most, Matter Most
You gain clarity and focus when you know what you value, and live in accordance with those values in both organizations and in life. You are able to make consistent decisions and take committed, concentrated, productive action. Ultimately, you are able to improve the results you get in those areas that are truly most important to you and to the organizations that you serve. This e-book walks you through the basis of building value through values: how to create meaningful values in an organization – and how to turn value statements into real values through a clear and powerful accountability process.
Building Value Through Values
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