In executing the Good Work Project, we conducted in-depth…

In executing the Good Work Project, we conducted in-depth in terviews of more than 1,200 professionals in nine different spheres of work. Reflection on our findings has led us to conceptualize god work as exhibiting three components, each exemplified by the letter E. Good work is excellent-it meets the technical standards of the rel evant profession or craft. It is personally meaningful or engaging. Car rying out good work over the long haul proves too difficult unless that work remains inviting and meaningful to the practitioner. The third is ethical. Good work is carried out in a responsible, ethical manner The good worker constantly interrogates herself about what it means to be responsible; seeks to behave in that way; and attempts, as we all should, to admit her failings and thereafter to correct course.

— from True North (Ethics, Integrity, Truth, Values) · Truth, Beauty and Goodness Reframed: Educating for the Virtues in the Age of Truthiness an

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The practical core stays simple, though: cultivate a steady awareness of your relationships and then act on the obligations they carry. Work itself is at its best when it is, all at once, excellent, engaging, and ethical. Marcus Aurelius began each day reminding himself that the people he'd meet would be ungrateful, arrogant, and dishonest — and that he would not let any of them implicate him in ugliness or turn him hard, because we were born to work together like the two hands, the two eyes, the upper and lower rows of teeth. — True North (Ethics, Integrity, Truth, Values)

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