PIC No. 92:
• Title: The Purpose Code: How to Unlock Meaning, Maximize Happiness, and Leave a Lasting Legacy
• Author: Jordan Grumet, MD
• Publisher: Harriman House (Jan. 7, 2025, 230 pages)
• Management Bucket #13 of 20: The Crisis Bucket
Welcome to Issue No. 92 of PAILS IN COMPARISON, the value-added sidekick of John Pearson’s Buckets Blog. This blog features my “PICs”—shorter reviews of helpful books—with comparisons to other books in my 20 management buckets (core competencies) filing system.
The Crisis: What is my life's purpose? These books will help you.
If you read my review of the new book, The Purpose Code: How to Unlock Meaning, Maximize Happiness, and Leave a Lasting Legacy, by Jordan Grumet, MD, you'll see this question:
Should you read The Purpose Code every year? My friend and mentor, George Duff (1931-2023) re-read Peter Drucker’s The Effective Executive every year.
Or…should you read a different book on purpose every year? What titles on “purpose” are on your resource bookshelves at work? (You do have a resource bookcase, right?) Below is a short list of books on “purpose” so you can “delegate” your reading to other team members.
PAILS IN COMPARISON: Reading this book reminded me of several other must-read books in the Crisis Bucket, plus other buckets/core competencies. (I could have slotted this book in any one of six other buckets!)
[ ] You on Purpose: Discover Your Calling and Create the Life You Were Meant to Live, by Dr. Stephanie Shackelford and Bill Denzel. (Order from Amazon.)
[ ] 5: Where Will You Be Five Years from Today? by Dan Zadra. (Read my review.)
[ ] Your 168: Finding Purpose and Satisfaction in a Values-Based Life, by Harry M. Jansen Kraemer Jr. (Order from Amazon.)
[ ] Leading with Heart: Five Conversations That Unlock Creativity, Purpose, and Results, by John Baird and Edward Sullivan. (Read my review.)
[ ] Dynamic Drive: The Purpose-Fueled Formula for Sustainable Success, by Molly Fletcher. (Read my review.)
[ ] Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward, by Dr. Henry Cloud. (Read my review. This was my 2011 book-of-the-year.)
[ ] Listen to My Life : Maps for Recognizing and Responding to God in My Story Wall Chart, by Sibyl Towner and Sharon Swing. (Read my review in the 2nd article.)
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[ ] “Drucker Mondays Blog” on the book, A Year With Peter Drucker. (See the commentary on purpose by Steve Brown on Week 45.)
[ ] The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For? by Rick Warren. (Order from Amazon.)
[ ] Know What Matters: Lessons from a Lifetime of Transformations, by Ron Shaich, founder and former CEO of Panera Bread. (Read my review.)
[ ] See also this Wall Street Journal article (Jan. 3, 2025) about Ron Shaich, founder and former CEO of Panera Bread: “It’s Called a Premortem—and It’s the Most Productive Thing You’ll Do All Year. Forget about making a New Year’s resolution. Have you tried imagining your deathbed?” by Ben Cohen.
[ ] Oh God, I’m Dying! How God Redeems Pain for Our Good and for His Glory, by Terry Powell and Mark Smith (Read my review.)
[ ] Finishing Well, by Ron Cline. (Read my review.)
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