Reviewing Matthew Kelly's book, The Dream Manager and touching on people's need for purpose in the work they do.

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Business book review, The Dream Manager by Matthew Kelly.

Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

I am a business investor who I have these talks on a nightly basis. And so most of the time, it's me talking, sometimes I'll have someone with me, sometimes I'll have someone that I'm interviewing, and I'm hardly doing any of the talking at all.

Tonight, I wanted to talk to you about The Dream Manager.

This is a good book. It's a short book, it came out in 2007. And it's one of these that I had never read. I don't think I'd ever heard of it, honestly.

I may have heard a podcast, I believe it was a podcast where I heard Matthew Kelly being interviewed.

There was made mention of this book, I looked it up, I put it on my wish list. And it was just one of these things that eventually I knew I'd, I'd want to purchase. Finally, I ended up purchasing it quick read, it's a really nice read, it's one of these books, if you've read many business books, it's one of these that takes the area of creating kind of a fictional story, to be able to teach the lesson.

The whole concept is that a person in the story is working at a company and trying to overcome the tuition issues with just the fact that they can't keep people in the workplace, which is funny, because it's something that's affecting everybody right now.

They can't keep workers on.

It's a janitorial company and he starts going through how he has this concept of creating a dream manager, having somebody that is hired directly to the company, that their only job is to work with all the employees and see if there's anything that they can do to help them achieve their dreams.

Dreams, what's a dream, right?

It defines it, it goes into it of anything that people are looking for, in the future, you know, anything that they're looking to get out of life, any places they'd like to travel to any things that they'd like to have any careers they'd like to have any experiences they'd like to have.

It's stuff that we all have, but we don't talk about very often, we don't want to get our hopes up. We don't want to overthink this, we may think we deserve all these different concepts.

It's very common in employment circles, if you're employed if you're an employee, you're not going to have a whole lot of people and there goes my book, I'll talk to you about that in a minute.

But you're not going to want to talk to people about where you'd like to go. And a lot of times people will laugh, a lot of times it will seem, you know, outrageous that you would ever want anything like that.

It could be something as simple and as common as owning a home. But if you're making the salary of a janitor, you may not feel like you ever have the ability to do something like that. So they talk about that.

And they talk about the transformation that happens to this company because they start paying attention to each individual's dreams, and helping them to come true in the simplest ways, you know, helping them to budget where necessary and actually map out how long it's going to take for them to be able to achieve what they want.

If it's a financial goal, or a financial-based goal if they're looking to get into I don't even remember all the examples.