The Economics of Higher Purpose Eight Counterintuitive Steps for Creating a Purpose Driven Organization 1st Edition by Robert Quinn, Anjan Thakor ISBN 9781523086429 1523086424

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ISBN 10: 1523086424
ISBN 13: 9781523086429
Author: Robert Quinn, Anjan Thakor
Two distinguished scholars offer eight steps to help organizations discover and embrace an authentic higher purpose—something that will dramatically improve every aspect of any enterprise, including the bottom line.

What does a lofty notion like purpose have to do with business basics like the bottom line? Robert E. Quinn and Anjan J. Thakor say pretty much everything. Leaders and managers are taught that employees are self-interested and work resistant, so they create systems of control to combat these expectations. Workers resent these systems, and performance suffers. To address the performance issues, managers double down on the coercion, creating a vicious cycle and a self-fulfilling prophecy.

But there is a better way. Quinn and Thakor show that when an authentic higher purpose permeates business strategy and decision-making, the cycle is broken. Employers and employees see themselves as working together toward an inspiring goal, not just trying to hit quarterly targets. They fully engage, become proactive contributors, and, ironically, easily exceed those quarterly targets.

Based on their widely acclaimed Harvard Business Review article, Quinn and Thakor offer eight sometimes surprising steps for shifting from a transaction-oriented mind-set focused on constraints to a purpose-oriented mind-set focused on possibility. This iconoclastic book will help any organization discover its authentic purpose and weave it into the fabric of everything it does, leading to unprecedented levels of personal satisfaction, service and product innovation, and economic growth.

The Economics of Higher Purpose Eight Counterintuitive Steps for Creating a Purpose Driven Organization 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part I: The Economics of Higher Purpose

One. Seeing What Cannot Be Seen

Two. Higher Purpose Changes Everything

Three. Imagining Organizations of Higher Purpose

Four. Transforming Self-Interest

Five. Reframing Economics

Six. Why Isn’t Everyone Doing It?

Part II: Eight Steps for Creating the Purpose-Driven Organization

Seven. Step 1 Envision the Purpose-Driven Organization

Eight. Step 2 Discover the Purpose

Nine. Step 3 Meet the Need for Authenticity

Ten. Step 4 Turn the Higher Purpose into a Constant Arbiter

Eleven. Step 5 Stimulate Learning

Twelve. Step 6 Turn Midlevel Managers into Purpose-Driven Leaders

Thirteen. Step 7 Connect the People to the Purpose

Fourteen. Step 8 Unleash the Positive Energizers

Fifteen. Taking Action: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

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