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Meaningful work : a quest to do great business, find your calling, and feed your soul / Shawn Askinosie, with Lawren Askinosie.

by Askinosie, Shawn.

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TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2017.

Job satisfaction.

Quality of work life.

Vocational guidance.

9780143130314 (hc.)

xvii, 206 pages ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- Find meaning in your work, or else it just might kill you -- Develop a business vocation, or else it just might kill your business -- How much is enough? -- Essentials to success -- Don't scale, reverse scale -- A rule of life.

"Askinosie Chocolate is a small-batch chocolate company. Known for sourcing 100% of his cocoa beans directly from farmers across the globe, Shawn Askinosie has pioneered direct trade and profit sharing in the craft chocolate industry with farmers in Tanzania, Ecuador, and the Philippines. In addition to developing relationships with smallholder farmers, the company also partners with schools in their origin communities to provide lunch to 1,600 children every day with no outside donations. Twenty-five years ago, Shawn Askinosie was a successful criminal defense lawyer. For many years he found law satisfying, but after several high profile trials he reached a breaking point and found solace in the search for a new career. In this inspiring guide to discovering a vocation that feeds your heart and soul, Askinosie describes his quest to discover more meaningful work, a search that led him to volunteering in the palliative care wing of a hospital, to a Trappist monastery where he became inspired by the monks focus on "being" rather than "doing," and eventually traipsing through jungles across the globe in search of excellent cocoa bean farmers to make award winning chocolate. Askinosie shares his hard-won insights into doing work that reflects one's values and purpose in life. He shares visioning tools that can be used in any industry or field to create a work life that is inspired and fulfilling. Everyone has the capacity to find meaning in their work and be a positive force for good in the world. Shawn Askinosie is the founder of Askinosie Chocolate. Lawren Askinosie, his daughter, is the Chief Marketing Officer"--Provided by publisher.

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