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Love + Work by Marcus Buckingham — WisdomDeck honest review
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Love + Work

by Marcus Buckingham

Find the 'red threads' of activities you love, weave them into your work, and redesign roles around them. Buckingham's most personal book, with his own story and a method for the reader.

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you want to find what you love in your work and do more of it.

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Three things you will actually use

  1. Red threads: find them, pull them.
  2. Twenty percent love protects against burnout.
  3. Design your role around the threads.

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Red threads.

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