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Book Title:Meaning Over Purpose: The CEO’s strategic blueprint for growth and lasting engagement
Author:Angela Rixon
Published:2025
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Meaning Over Purpose offers a fresh and timely leadership model for tackling one of today’s biggest workplace challenges: employee disengagement. It introduces the “Purpose-to-Meaning Gap”, the disconnect between what organisations say and what people actually experience, and shows leaders how to close it. Rather than treating purpose as the answer on its own, the book provides a practical framework for embedding meaning into leadership, culture, and everyday work.
Drawing on Angela Rixon’s senior HR experience, alongside research and psychology, the book is delivered through an accessible, story-led format centred on a fictional CEO, Sarah. It equips leaders to respond to burnout, AI, generational change, and hybrid work while strengthening engagement, retention, productivity, and organisational performance.