Make Work Engaging Again

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🗓️ 3 April 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Dan Cable, a professor of organizational behavior at London Business School, explains why people often lose their enthusiasm for their work and how leaders can help them get it back. He says we shouldn’t forget that as humans we all need to explore and have purpose — and without that, we languish. Cable offers ideas for restoring people’s passion for their jobs. He’s the author of “Alive at Work: The Neuroscience of Helping Your People Love What They Do.”

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0:00.0	Kurt Nick is here from Ideacast. I want to tell you about the Big Take
0:05.1	podcast from Bloomberg News. Each weekday they bring you one important story
0:10.0	from their global newsroom like how AI will upend your life and why China's
0:15.4	targeting the US dollar. Check out the big take from Bloomberg wherever you
0:20.2	listen. Welcome to the HBO Ideacast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Sarah Green Carmichael.
0:43.0	Imagine doing a job where you fail most of the time. That's what working in a call center for college fundraising
0:54.4	is kind of like.
0:55.8	About 10 knows, for every, yeah, I'll donate.
0:59.3	It just sounds deadening.
1:01.4	So what happens when fundraisers meet for a few minutes with a student
1:05.2	who's benefited from their work? When that scholarship student leaves, the people
1:09.7	that met them are much more enthused and turned on about the work. They are much more
1:14.1	persistent about making calls. They make almost three times more calls on their
1:18.4	shifts. That's our guest today, Dan Cable. He's a professor of
1:22.2	organizational behavior at London Business School.
1:25.0	Dan's new book is alive at work. He's here to talk about how you can help your team and
1:30.5	yourself feel motivated and purposeful on the job. Dan, thank you for making the time.
1:35.3	Thank you, Sarah. So no one sets out to be the kind of manager who is, you know, whose employees do not feel alive at work.
1:44.0	No one sets out to be a soul-sucking manager.
1:47.0	So how does it happen?
1:48.0	And why does so many of us feel,
1:50.0	you might say, dead at work instead of alive at work.
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