Author: Ken Hopper
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The Puritan Gift: Reclaiming the American Dream Amidst Global Financial Chaos
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The Puritan Gift traces the origins and the characteristics of American managerial culture which, in the course of three centuries, would turn a group of small colonies into the greatest economic and political power on earth.The Puritan Gift review. Read full reviews of The Puritan Gift: Reclaiming The American Dream Amidst Global Financial Chaos: T.
It was the Protestant ethic whose characteristics--thrift, a respect for enquiry, individualism tempered by a need to cooperate, success as a measure of divine approval--helped to create the conditions which led to America's managerial and corporate success. Thus, the authors contend, the drive, energy and acceptance of innovation, competition, growth and social mobility, all 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 core values which produced their nineteenth and twentieth century business and economic successes, they endanger the basis for their prosperity and security.
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The Puritan Gift : Paperback : IBTauris & Co Ltd : 9781845119867 : 184511986X : 15 Feb 2009 : Where does the Protestant work ethic come from? And how did America achieve such dominance in management for so long? This title 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.
author kenneth hopper author william hopper format paperback language english publication year 30 01 2009 subject management business economics industry subject 2 management business general title the puritan gift reclaiming the american dream amidst global financial chaos triumph collapse and revival of an american dream author hopper kenneth hopper william publisher ib tauris co ltd publication date mar 17 2009 pages 352 binding paperback dimensions 5 25 wx 8 00 hx 1 25 d isbn 184511986 xs
Financial Times Top Ten Business Book of 2007 The Puritan Gift traces the origins and the characteristics of American managerial culture which, in the course of three centuries, would turn a group of small colonies into the greatest economic and political power on earth. It was the Protestant ethic whose characteristics--thrift, a respect for enquiry, individualism tempered by a need to cooperate, success as a measure of divine approval--helped to create the conditions which led to America's managerial and corporate success. Thus, the authors contend, the drive, energy and acceptance of innova
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It was the Protestant ethic whose characteristics--thrift, a respect for enquiry, individualism tempered by a need to cooperate, success as a measure of divine approval--helped to create the conditions which led to America's managerial and corporate success. Thus, the authors contend, the drive, energy and acceptance of innovation, competition, growth and social mobility, all 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 core values which produced their nineteenth and twentieth century business and economic successes, they endanger the basis for their prosperity and security.
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