Ebook: Meaningful work: a quest to do great business, find your calling, and feed your soul

Introduction -- Find meaning in your work, or else it just might kill you -- Develop a business vocation, or else it just might kill your business -- How much is enough? -- Essentials to success -- Don't scale, reverse scale -- A rule of life.;"The founder of award-winning chocolatier Askinosie Chocolate shows readers how he discovered the secret to purposeful work--and how we can too, no matter what work we do. Askinosie Chocolate is a small batch, award-winning chocolate manufacturer with seventeen full-time employees, sourcing 100% of their beans directly from cocoa farmers on four continents. The company is the only chocolate maker to use direct trade and to profit share with farmers in Ecuador, Honduras, the Philippines, and Tanzania. The company also feeds 1,600 children every day without any outside donations. But twenty years ago, Shawn Askinosie was a successful defense lawyer trying his first murder death penalty case that would later go on to become a Dateline special. Burnt out in this field, he sought to emulate Trappist monks, who focused on being rather than doing. In this book, Askinosie shares his hard-won insights into doing work that reflects his values. His business goals relate not to getting bigger, but getting better at staying small--a concept he calls reverse scale. He also shares his business visioning tool that he applies at every level of his company. Askinosie shows us that everyone has the capacity to find meaning in their work and be a positive force for good."--Publisher's description.