Impact with Love: Building Business for a Better World

by Greg Harmeyer

Develop high-performing organizations that positively impact people’s lives People want to make a difference in the world; they want their work to matter. The businesses we lead and engage in provide an opportunity to serve others and have a positive impact on their lives. After 20 years of leading an award-winning, high-impact, healthy, high-growth company, author Greg Harmeyer shares his wealth of knowledge in Impact with Love. In the valuable book, he shares insights, experiences, and frameworks that help leaders create organizations that make a difference in people's lives. We can bring love and trust into the workplace through systems, practices, and beliefs that reinforce these ideals; in doing so, we have healthier work cultures and higher performing organizations. If you’re a business owner, executive, or a leader in some facet who wants to break from conventional business structures and norms and think differently about how you can use your position of leadership to create value, create profit, and make a meaningful impact on all stakeholders, then this book is for you.

Genres: Nonfiction

260 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 25, 2023

Reviews

[Ben · Rating 4 out of 5]

I left a company after being there 17 years, at the strongest point of my career, to join TiER1 back in April. I bought this book because I want a better understanding of what I am part of.

A past version of myself would delight in the promise in these pages. Business CAN be done with love and a force for good. It’s more than an abstract idea, though. There are practices and models here. More than that, we absolutely do what is written here at TiER1. It’s both wonderful and challenging to be a part of.

Greg offers principles and perspectives, then invites you to sit with the provocations and form your own views. Some concepts here would be impossible for a mid-level leader to implement in a large company. You can always bring in love, though, and ideas here may spark useful insights.

[Katerina Molchanova · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good intentions, but sometimes silly execution

I have dual impressions from this book: in some parts it's completely genius, in others it's very amateurish. The intentions of the book are good, the main vision is good as well. There are some approaches which I took note of, as they are completely awesome.
But then in another part of the book the author challenges common approaches without understanding the whole implications. From comments and conclusions it's clear that he never tried the common approaches - rather invented his own. And I can tell the newly invented are not better than the accepted best practices... It's actually visible from Glassdoor comments. The company would have a much better score without these experiments.
So, I would still recommend this book for advanced readers, but suggest reading it with a grain of salt.

[Sarah Anne · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book outlines many practical perspectives and practices that can orient leaders to creating dynamic agile workplaces that focus on people. It's a great blend of principles balanced with ideas and tools for bringing them to life.

[Carol & Russell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book