Putting Hope to Work
Subtitle: Five Principles to Activate Your Organization's Most Powerful Resource
Publisher: Praeger Publishers; Praeger
Published: June 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780275988197
Subjects: Management & management techniques; Self-Help; Business / Economics / Finance; Management - General; Organizational Behavior; Business & Economics / Management; Motivational & Inspirational; Employee motivation; Hope; Leadership; Psychological aspects
Description: "Drawing upon their many years of research and management consulting, the authors present a pragmatic approach to identifying, supporting, and sustaining hope and channeling it toward productive ends to create more vibrant, creative, collaborative - and successful - workplaces. Integrating insights from fields as diverse as anthropology, psychology, philosophy, and biology, Hutson and Perry identify the five key principles of hope - possibility, agency, worth, openness, and connection - and demonstrate how they can be developed in any type of organization.

Featuring dozens of in-depth examples and personal experiences from a wide variety of organizations, as well as tools for applying hope toward effective leadership, decision making, problem solving, and communication, the authors offer a multi-dimensional approach to leadership that is both inspiring and practical, tapping into a universal desire to produce work that is as meaningful as it is profitable."--Jacket.