"We're in the middle of an epidemic of stress and anxiety. A global pandemic has wreaked havoc
on our lives. Average life expectancy in the United States is down. At work less than 16
percent of us are fully engaged. In many high-stress jobs such as distribution centers
emergency room nursing and teaching incidences of PTSD are higher than for soldiers returning
from war zones. We're getting something terribly wrong. We've designed the love out of our
workplaces and our schools too so that they fail utterly to provide for or capitalize on one
of our most basic human needs: our need for love. As Marcus Buckingham shows in this
eye-opening uplifting book love is an energy and like all forms of energy it must flow. It
demands expression-and that expression is "work." Whether in our professional accomplishments
our relationships or our response to all the many slings and arrows of life we know that none
of this work will be our best unless it is made with love. There's no learning without love no
innovation no service no sustainable growth. Love and work are inextricable. Buckingham first
starkly highlights the contours of our loveless work lives and explains how we got here. Next
he relates how we all develop best in response to other human beings. What does a great work
relationship look like when the other person is cued to your loves? What does a great team look
like when each member is primed to be a mirror an amplifier of the loves of another? Finally
he shows how you can weave love back into the world of work as a force for good how you can
use your daily life routines to pinpoint your specific loves and how you can make this a
discipline for the rest of your life. Today too often love comes last at work and we are
living the painful consequences of this. Love + Work powerfully shows why love must come
first-and how we can make this happen"--
