Discussing the Book of the Month

January 2004 - Love It, Don't Leave It: 26 Ways to Get What You Want at Work

Riffing through the alphabet in just less than 200 pages, Fast Company readers' second selection for the Readers' Choice Award is a fun -- and productive -- guide to getting what you want rather than taking what you get. The "antidote to waiting" incorporates purple highlight text and seen-on-the-street "T-Shirt truths" to help make its case.

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Discussion Questions

1. What does it really mean to love your work? Is that a reasonable expectation in today's environment?
2. In a perfect world, what would your work be like? How is it now? What defines the gap, and what can you do to bridge it?
3. If everyone in your organization read and then applied ideas from this book, what might happen? What changes would you see in satisfaction, productivity, turnover?
4. How can you ask for what you want from work more effectively? Whom would you apprach first to make a change, and what would your first question be?