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Quinn Robert E - The economics of higher purpose: eight counterintuitive steps for creating a purpose-driven organization

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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--;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--

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Quinn and Thakor create a powerful case and practical guide for why and how we should run into a burning building. Their eight counterintuitive steps for purpose-driven management are a must-read for leaders who understand that all you can command is attendance, and all the good stuff is given willingly by those that understand and share the higher purpose of their organization.

Jim Mallozzi, former Chairman and CEO, Prudential Real Estate and Relocation Services

As an HR leader, I am constantly thinking about how to provide a richer, more meaningful work experience. The Economics of Higher Purpose provides a compelling blueprint to help our people connect to a deeper purpose in their work. If this is done well, work becomes more than a paycheck; it satisfies our desire to be a part of something bigger.

Shawn P. Patterson, Vice President of Organizational Effectiveness and Chief Learning Officer, DTE Energy

In this book, Quinn and Thakor teach us a great yet challenging lesson: when we learn to look beyond profit maximization to a higher purpose, we learn to create lasting prosperity.

Charles C. Manz, Nirenberg Chaired Professor of Leadership, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and coauthor of Twisted Leadership and Twisted Teams

In their new book, Quinn and Thakor share amazing insights and stories on how higher purpose turns everyone into a fully invested person. This volume is a profound playbook for those who want to unleash the human and economic power in the people around them.

Jim Haudan, Chairman, Root Inc.

The authors take us on a compelling journey in which we discover the why and the how of creating organizations of higher purpose. Then they give us the gift of practical tools and exercisesit is a precious volume for those who want to make a difference.

Nick Craig, author of Leading from Purpose

By discovering what has made some organizations so hugely successful, Thakor and Quinn give higher purpose the instrumental role it deserves in everybodys life project, large or small. They have written a fantastic, eye-opening book. It is both visionary and highly practical. I have followed their rules unknowingly for the better part of my life.

Jan Krahnen, Professor of Finance, Goethe University, and Founding Director, Sustainable Architecture for Finance in Europe

Everyone has a brand. This book will teach you how to translate your purpose, vision, and values into a strong personal and professional brand. The book leads you on a journey that will help you understand the power of your personal brand and nurture its evolution throughout your career.

Dave Ulrich, Rensis Likert Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, and Partner, The RBL Group

The Economics of Higher Purpose

Eight Counterintuitive Steps for Creating a Purpose-Driven Organization

ROBERT E. QUINN
ANJAN V. THAKOR

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The Economics of Higher Purpose

Copyright 2019 by Robert E. Quinn and Anjan V. Thakor
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. For permission requests, write to the publisher, addressed Attention: Permissions Coordinator, at the address below.

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Hardcover print edition ISBN 978-1-5230-8640-5
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Book producer and text designer: BookMatters, Berkeley
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CONTENTS
PREFACE

Professors of management and professors of finance speak two different languages, so communication among them is very limited. The two of us, Bob and Anjan, not only talk, we cherish talking. We cherish it because we have a higher purpose. We love learning, and we both yearn to help others gain the love of learning. When we talk together, we not only move forward, we also flourish. We flourish because we have established such a high-quality connection that we make each other better. When we spend a day together, we spend weeks afterward unpacking all the new ideas.

For more than twenty years, we have traveled the globe together running workshops, making presentations, and interviewing senior executives. As we have had these rich experiences, each of us has always been incredibly interested in what the other thinks. We take an experience that captivates us on a given day. Then we collectively ponder it. We explore it from the perspective of management theory. Then we analyze it from the perspective of financial theory. Then we seek to integrate what we have learned. As we do this, we become bilingual as we learn to speak a little more of each others professional language, and we take on a more inclusive mind-set in which differences can be integrated.

Since neither of us fully understands what the other is talking about, we have to pay close attention. We also have to reduce complex ideas down to notions with which the other can connect. We also have to become vulnerable. We have to expose our ignorance and confess that we do not understand. Since we both respect and trust each other, we are comfortable exposing our ignorance as we join in mutual exploration.

A relationship of purpose, trust, vulnerability, and learning often gives rise to new capacities. The capacities are real. There have been times when we have put together a major presentation, requiring the integration of complex concepts, in less than five minutes. If one of us did the same task with a different person, it would take days. We are able to do this because we live in a relationship based on trust, and trust gives rise to collective intelligence. Together, we can do extraordinary things.

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