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“Treating purpose as a rhetorical quick fix embodies legacy thinking. The paradox is that if you treat purpose as a performance, it will never drive performance.”
― Higher Ground: How Business Can Do the Right Thing in a Turbulent World
― Higher Ground: How Business Can Do the Right Thing in a Turbulent World
“Purpose is unencumbered by the punitive, legalistic associations of ethics and compliance. In a single word, it conveys the notion that meaning, impact, and values can act in mutually reinforcing ways. Still, unless purpose can be grounded somewhere concrete and practical, it’s at risk of becoming the latest iteration of confounding jargon about corporate responsibility.”
― Higher Ground: How Business Can Do the Right Thing in a Turbulent World
― Higher Ground: How Business Can Do the Right Thing in a Turbulent World
“Progress eventually finds a way, especially when the difference between what is being considered and what exists is so, so massive and obvious.”
― The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World
― The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World
“Purpose is a promising term because it offers a holistic response to today's pressures on business leaders”
― Higher Ground: How Business Can Do the Right Thing in a Turbulent World
― Higher Ground: How Business Can Do the Right Thing in a Turbulent World
“Your remark about the “oughts” and system of values in political science leaves me rather cold. If as I think, the values are simply generalizations emotionally expressed, the generalizations are matters for the same science as other observations of fact. If as I sometimes suspect, you believe in some transcendental sanction, I don't. Of course, different people, and especially different races, differ in their values―but those differences are matters of fact and I have no respect for them except my general respect for what exists. Man is an idealizing animal―and expresses his ideals (values) in the conventions of his time. I have very little respect for the conventions in themselves, but respect and generally try to observe those of my own environment as the transitory expression of an eternal fact. . .”
― The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
― The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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