The Puritan Gift: Reclaiming the American Dream Amidst Global Financial Chaos

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9781845119867

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Publisher
I. B. Tauris & Company, The Limited
ISBN-10
184511986X
ISBN-13
9781845119867
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6038545604

Product Key Features

Book Title
Puritan Gift : Reclaiming the American Dream Amidst Global Financial Chaos
Number of Pages
360 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Topic
Economic History, Christianity / History, Industrial Management, United States / General, Workplace Culture
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Religion, Business & Economics, History
Author
Kenneth Hopper, William Hopper
Format
Trade Paperback

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0.7 in
Item Weight
17 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

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Preface by
Ackoff, Russell L.
Reviews
"Kenneth Hopper is certainly one of the most eloquent, and credible voices being raised on this issue."--Robert Hayes, Harvard University "A goldmine of information."--Myron Tribus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Stephen Evans, as presenter of BBC Business Daily , has selected this book as a 'must read of the year' for 2007. "A very thought-provoking and readable book."--Linda Hesselman, Management Studies Centre, University College, London "A stunning triumph . . . An important new contribution to the academic study of management." --Professor Peter Kawalek, Manchester Business School "The best thing about The Puritan Gift is that it is a real book, full of fascinating insights, intellectual rigour and challenging, authoritative arguments that remind us that there is nothing new about the responsibilities of management." - Richard Donkin , Financial Times ''Mr. Fuld [Lehman Brothers] displayed...an air of pained bewilderment at his congressional committee hearing last week. His expression of regret at the collapse of his bank should be included in every MBA syllabus. As Will and Kenneth Hopper point out in their essential book The Puritan Gift, the main tasks of the CEO were to determine strategy, appoint divisional heads and supervise their work...''-- Stefan Stern, Financial Times 'In The Puritan Gift , published last year, the septuagenarian Scottish brothers William and Kenneth Hopper, respectively a banker and an engineer-turned-industrial consultant, argued that for 200 years the puritan foundations of America kept its businesses intact, emphasising craft, financial responsibility and the sublimation of private interest to the group.' - Andrew Billen, TIMES , 9th March 2009 "...bold, original and agreeably opinionated" -- Simon Caulkin, Observer, "Kenneth Hopper is certainly one of the most eloquent, and credible voices being raised on this issue."--Robert Hayes, Harvard University "A goldmine of information."--Myron Tribus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Stephen Evans, as presenter of BBC Business Daily , has selected this book as a 'must read of the year' for 2007. "A very thought-provoking and readable book."--Linda Hesselman, Management Studies Centre, University College, London "A stunning triumph . . . An important new contribution to the academic study of management." --Professor Peter Kawalek, Manchester Business School "The best thing about The Puritan Gift is that it is a real book, full of fascinating insights, intellectual rigour and challenging, authoritative arguments that remind us that there is nothing new about the responsibilities of management." - Richard Donkin , Financial Times ''Mr. Fuld [Lehman Brothers] displayed…an air of pained bewilderment at his congressional committee hearing last week. His expression of regret at the collapse of his bank should be included in every MBA syllabus. As Will and Kenneth Hopper point out in their essential book The Puritan Gift, the main tasks of the CEO were to determine strategy, appoint divisional heads and supervise their work…''-- Stefan Stern, Financial Times 'In The Puritan Gift , published last year, the septuagenarian Scottish brothers William and Kenneth Hopper, respectively a banker and an engineer-turned-industrial consultant, argued that for 200 years the puritan foundations of America kept its businesses intact, emphasising craft, financial responsibility and the sublimation of private interest to the group.' - Andrew Billen, TIMES , 9th March 2009 "...bold, original and agreeably opinionated" -- Simon Caulkin, Observer, ""Kenneth Hopper is certainly one of the most eloquent, and credible voices being raised on this issue.""--Robert Hayes, Harvard University ""A goldmine of information.""--Myron Tribus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Stephen Evans, as presenter of BBC Business Daily , has selected this book as a 'must read of the year' for 2007. ""A very thought-provoking and readable book.""--Linda Hesselman, Management Studies Centre, University College, London ""A stunning triumph . . . An important new contribution to the academic study of management."" --Professor Peter Kawalek, Manchester Business School ""The best thing about The Puritan Gift is that it is a real book, full of fascinating insights, intellectual rigour and challenging, authoritative arguments that remind us that there is nothing new about the responsibilities of management."" - Richard Donkin , Financial Times ''Mr. Fuld [Lehman Brothers] displayed…an air of pained bewilderment at his congressional committee hearing last week. His expression of regret at the collapse of his bank should be included in every MBA syllabus. As Will and Kenneth Hopper point out in their essential book The Puritan Gift, the main tasks of the CEO were to determine strategy, appoint divisional heads and supervise their work…''-- Stefan Stern, Financial Times 'In The Puritan Gift , published last year, the septuagenarian Scottish brothers William and Kenneth Hopper, respectively a banker and an engineer-turned-industrial consultant, argued that for 200 years the puritan foundations of America kept its businesses intact, emphasising craft, financial responsibility and the sublimation of private interest to the group.' - Andrew Billen, TIMES , 9th March 2009 ""...bold, original and agreeably opinionated"" -- Simon Caulkin, Observer, "Kenneth Hopper is certainly one of the most eloquent, and credible voices being raised on this issue."--Robert Hayes, Harvard University "A goldmine of information."--Myron Tribus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Stephen Evans, as presenter ofBBC Business Daily, has selected this book as a 'must read of the year' for 2007. "A very thought-provoking and readable book."--Linda Hesselman, Management Studies Centre, University College, London "A stunning triumph . . . An important new contribution to the academic study of management." --Professor Peter Kawalek, Manchester Business School "The best thing aboutThe Puritan Giftis that it is a real book, full of fascinating insights, intellectual rigour and challenging, authoritative arguments that remind us that there is nothing new about the responsibilities of management." - Richard Donkin, Financial Times 'Mr. Fuld [Lehman Brothers] displayed…an air of pained bewilderment at his congressional committee hearing last week. His expression of regret at the collapse of his bank should be included in every MBA syllabus. As Will and Kenneth Hopper point out in their essential book The Puritan Gift, the main tasks of the CEO were to determine strategy, appoint divisional heads and supervise their work…''-- Stefan Stern,Financial Times
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
658.00973
Table Of Content
THE PURITAN GIFT CONSOLIDATED LIST OF CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS (as of 08/10/08) Page Lines from top Changes DEDICATION PAGE v add the following poem towards the centre of the page: One ship sails East and another West, By the self-same winds that blow. 'Tis the set of the sails, and not the gales, That tells the way we go. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Poems of Progress. 1911.>First Light of the True Dawn? >> Do the same to the chapter heading on page 262 and to the page headings on pages 265, 267, 269, 271, 273, 275 & 277 PREFACE xi 10 Italicise: >>Ecole Polytechnique>> 12 after >>France.>>add: >>Anderson's College is now the University of Strathclyde.>> 15 replace: >>Systematic Organic Chemistry (1937),>>with: >>Systematic Organic Chemistry: Modern Methods of Preparation and Estimation (1923, 1931, 1937, 1950), >> 33 add: >>to>>in front of: >>a Japan>> 37 add period after: >>.com.>> xii 15 replace >>special>>with: >>specialist>> 37 insert >>(sic)>>after: >>technical>> 24 replace >>(see page 114)>>with: >>(see pages 114 and 115)>> : 27 add >>the late>>in front of: >>George>> ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xiv 05 insert >>Electronic>>in front of >>Network>>Mark Tully,>>add >>Roger Schenke, Executive Vice President, the American College of Physician Executives; Professor Peter Kawalek, Manchester Business School; David Howard, Management-NewStyle Limited >> 12 replace >>Brinkman>>with: >>Brinkmann>> 14 replace >>Kenneth>>with: >>Kenton>> 15 omit >>David Howard>> 18 replace >>, as well as>>with: >>; >> 20 insert comma after >>Jersey>> 20 replace >>as well as>>with >>and>> 17 add >>Gerald Shalet>>before >>Martin Shelley>> 17 add >>Anthony Tylecote,>>after >>Martin Shelly,>> NOTE TO EDITOR: PLEASE ENSURE THAT NAMES IN THE SECOND PARA ON THIS PAGE ARE IN STRICT ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY SURNAME PROLOGUE xvi 19 replace >>in June 2006>>with >>in BusinessWeek in 2006>> [note: BusinessWeek is one word.] PART I: ORIGINS (no changes) CHAPTER 1 03 epigraph Zeale is but a wilde-fire without knowledge. Rev. John Cotton. Boston, Massachusetts. 1651. 04 add >>of the United States>>after: >>most citizens>> 10/11 remove >>intimately>> [word appears twice in para] 06 04/06 substitute: >>An anonymous source tells us that etc>>for: >>Captain Staughton...to England that etc>> 31 replace >>would do>>with >>did>> 10 04 replace >>expression>>with >>exposition>> [misquotation] 12 09 insert >>in mid-July:>>after >>Thames>> 13 03 Insert before >>For a century and a half...>> the following para: >> The settlers of the 1630s had modeled themselves on the people of the Old Testament, the Puritan values and practices which Tawney described so vividly being largely Jewish in inspiration. It is therefore not surprising that, when first German and then Russian Jews moved in large numbers to the New World in the nineteenth century, they should have found the established American mores to their liking and become successful in business. In so doing, the newcomers both perpetuated and enhanced the great tradition of good management inherited from the first settlers. (Interestingly, the prophet Mani is said to have formed his religious outlook while dwelling in an ascetic Jew
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Where does the Protestant work ethic come from? And how did America achieve such dominance in management for so long? "The Puritan Gift" traces the origins and the characteristics of American managerial culture which, in the course of three centuries, turned a group of small colonies into the greatest economic and political power on earth. It argues that the drive, energy and acceptance of innovation, competition, growth and social mobility, all of which lie at the root of America's management culture, have their origins in the discipline and ethos of America's first wave of European immigrants: the Puritans.And, the authors warn, as Americans distance themselves from the core values which produced their business and economic successes during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, they put their future prosperity and security at risk. This is an original exploration of the dramatic and far-reaching consequences of the Puritans' 'gift' to America - the ethos which produced the early success of America and what came to be known as the American dream.

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