“The Puritan Gift” has been described as “the greatest management story ever told.”
By Kenneth Hopper and William Hopper
352 pages
I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd
Kindle Edition
$9.99
Here are preliminary assumptions that I have suggested to aid in interpreting “The Puritan Gift.”
• 1st, philosophically, seek the highest good of being.
• 2nd, practically, do as be done.
• 3rd, pointedly, build toward a common or higher good.
• 4th, definition, management is essentially leadership.
• 5th, assistance, in management, comes from self-learning or others.
Synopsis of “The Puritan Gift” (from the authors’ website)
• TRACING THE ORIGINS OF U.S. MANAGERIAL CULTURE
• THE PURITAN GIFT traces the origins and characteristics of a managerial culture which, over the course of three centuries, turned a handful of small American colonies into the greatest economic and political power on earth. It argues that the energy, social mobility, competitiveness and capacity for innovation which lay at the heart of that culture had their origins in the discipline and ethos of America’s first wave of European immigrants: the Puritans.
• Drawing lessons from their own extensive experience, the authors warn that, as America distances itself from the core values which underlay its commercial and economic success during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it puts its own future prosperity and security at risk.
• JAPAN’S INHERITANCE OF AMERICAN CULTURE
• The book also explores how American managerial culture has spread throughout the world. In particular it examines the impact of the US occupation of Japan on the social and manufacturing mores of that country and explains how America’s inherited style of management interacted with Japanese traditions.
• 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.
Book Review of “The Puritan Gift” (Promise Hsu, a Beijing based writer and editor, who helped launch the Asian Business Leaders monthly, Fortune Times weekly and CCTV-9, China's first 24-hour global news channel)
Book Review of the “greatest management story ever told” (Paul Kearns, author of the MBA text, “HR Strategy. Creating Business Strategy with Human Capital”)
Endorsements of “The Puritan Gift” (Peter Drucker, etc.)
A Slideshow Summary of 25 Management Principles (Olivier Dardalhon, a Paris based consultant with18 years experience in the field of management control, the implementation of information systems and internal control, and international experience of 4 years in China)
