how the promise for more kept us both excited and engaged. This spirit of un-fulfillment is too often missing in our adult work lives.

He went on to shape his argument into a book and platform he calls The Purpose Economy29 and subsequently merged with social design firm Imperative to promote “purposeful business.” The Purpose Economy, Hurst argues, is the next paradigm after the decline of the Information Economy.

is a clarion call for all those for whom mere business excellence and efficiency are not good enough.

Michael Norton, a professor of management at Harvard Business School and a coauthor of the book Happy Money,

Taproot Foundation.

What elicited our passion for life before we knew about the more “mature” values of money and power? How did our first experiences with work put us in touch with our most romantic selves?

Such “blended relationships”—bringing work into the home and home into work—are one of the hallmarks of our connected age. In all these ways, business binds us in its various chains of meaning. So when it comes to bringing more romance to our lives, why not start here?

We can manage what we cannot measure: we do it every day.

we suffer when we continue to create false distinctions between our business personas and other, larger parts of our humanity,