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What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth with all of it's pain, drama and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning"  Barbara De Angelis Time to set sail In 2015 a global survey of 474 executives published by Harvard Business Review, and sponsored by EY Beacon Institute    (a research/think tank run by Ernst & Young), showed  that while most executives believe organisational purpose is important less than half said their company runs in a purpose driven way. They define purpose as “an aspirational reason for being which inspires and provides a call to action for an organisation and its partners and stakeholders and provides benefit to local and global society”.  Their research suggests that purpose driven organisations enjoy better financial performance than others alongside other benefits.  (You might like to look at figure 3 on page 4). A simpler way of thinking about purpose i...

"Seven, Richie thought. That’s the magic number. There has to be seven of us.   That’s the way it’s supposed to be.”     Stephen King, It   Numerology, Wikipedia tells me, is any belief in the divine or mystical relationship between a number and one or more coinciding events.  Numerologists call ‘7’ as the Seeker (but not in the Harry Potter Quidditch sense) and along with a host of other thinkers and writers for thousands of years they describe 7 in special terms. Here are seven ways in which 7 shows up:     Seven colours of the rainbow       Seven days in the week       Seven deadly sins     Seven wonders of the ancient world     Seven continents     Seven dwarves saved Snow White       Seven stars in the Big Dipper or Great Bear constellation which help us locate the North Star One famous incidence of seven as a magic number took ...