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The Economics of Higher Purpose
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The Economics of Higher Purpose

by Robert E. Quinn, Anjan V. Thakor
August 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
216 pages
5h 18m
English
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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CHAPTER TWO

Higher Purpose Changes Everything

To understand organizational higher purpose, we need to understand the role of individuals, especially leaders, in the discovery of higher purpose. This chapter is devoted to the role of the individual in organizational higher purpose. For the individual the acquisition of higher purpose in life changes everything.

Leadership and Higher Purpose

When people embrace higher purpose, they begin to transcend convention, access new capacity, and behave in seemingly counterintuitive ways. Conventional economic thinking focuses on contractual ways to deal with individual self-interest in organizations and align employee behavior more closely with the behavior the owners of the business want. In this approach, ...

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ISBN: 9781523086429