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Common Purpose: How Great Leaders Get Organizations to Achieve the Extraordinary

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Description for Common Purpose: How Great Leaders Get Organizations to Achieve the Extraordinary Hardcover. From one of the most respected names in business and leadership, a rare look at the specifics of how great leaders achieve "common purpose" and success within their organizations. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: KJMB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 237 x 23. Weight in Grams: 430.

From one of the most respected names in business and leadership, a rare look at the specifics of how great leaders achieve "common purpose" and success within their organizations.

What is common purpose? It is that rare, almost-palpable experience that happens when a leader coalesces a group, team or community into a creative, dynamic, brave and nearly invincible we. It happens the moment the organization's values, tools, objectives and hopes are internalized in a way that enables people to work tirelessly toward a goal. Common purpose is rarely achieved. But Kurtzman has observed that when a leader is able to ... Read more

  • Based on Kurtzman's all-new interviews with more than 50 leaders, including Ron Sargent, Ilene Lang, Micky Arison, Simon Cooper, Joel Klein, Janet Field, Steve Wynn, Shivan Subramaniam, Michael Dell, Richard Boyatzis, Tom Kelley, Michael Milken, and Warren Bennis
  • Contains research on leadership Kurtzman has conducted during his years at The New York Times, the Harvard Business Review, Booz & Company, as well as with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Mercer, and Korn/Ferry

Based on all new interviews with some of the most dynamic, successful, and enduring leaders, Common Purpose sheds new light on the meaning of leadership, the crucial qualities of leaders, and most importantly, how to lead.

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Product Details

Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
430g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780470490099
SKU
V9780470490099
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Joel Kurtzman
JOEL KURTZMAN is chairman of the Kurtzman Group, a research and consulting firm focusing on issues relating to knowledge management, strategy, economic development, global risk, and thought leadership. He is a senior fellow at the Milken Institute and publisher of The Milken Institute Review, a member of the editorial board of MIT Sloan Management Review, and a senior fellow at ... Read more

Reviews for Common Purpose: How Great Leaders Get Organizations to Achieve the Extraordinary
"A thoughtful…and ethics-based discussion on leadership in the modern age by lauded businessman Kurtzman. A solid and readable look at 'New Leadership.'" (Publishers Weekly, January 18, 2010) "Through well-told anecdotes and strong logic, Kurtzman convincingly demonstrates that the essence of leadership is the ability to forge, from a disparate group of individuals, "a creative, dynamic, brave and nearly invincible ... Read more

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