Putting Hope to Work
Five Principles to Activate Your Organization's Most Powerful Resource
Harry Hutson, Barbara Perry
0-275-98819-8/978-0-275-98819-7
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How optimism, hope, and positive thinking can energize organizations and contribute to innovation, collaboration, and successful performance.
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Hutson and Perry draw on their combined experience in a wide variety of organizations....They have put together a fascinating book that tells us something we already know: Hope feels good; it is contagious; we and others are more productive when hope is there too.
—Journal of Product Innovation Management
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Management consultants Hutson and Perry describe what the power of hope can do for an organization. They identify five main principles for promoting and sustaining hope--possibility, agency, worth, openness, and connection--and explain how leaders can promote a hopeful organizational culture. Dozens of in-depth examples from a wide variety of organizations illustrate the implementation of the principles discussed.
—Reference & Research Book News
About the Author
Harry Hutson
is a business advisor and executive coach, specializing in career development, change management, communication, and conflict resolution. He consults to a wide variety of corporations, nonprofits, and educational institutions. For over 20 years he was a leader in human resource management at Cummins, Avery Dennison, and Global Knowledge Network, and he is the Vice Chairman of the New England Center for Children. He has written articles on human resources and organizational development for a variety of business and professional publications and delivered numerous presentations and workshops to colleagues. He is coauthor of
Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations
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Barbara Perry
is a cultural anthropologist, management consultant, and teacher. In her twenty-five years of consulting to Fortune 500 companies, her emphasis has been on facilitating development of customer-focused, innovative cultures. She pioneered the use of team-based ethnographic methods both internally (for managing change) and externally (to develop customer-relevant product and marketing strategies). She is a frequent speaker at trend, market research, innovation, and product development conferences and also runs a leadership workshop for women. Her articles on organizational culture and learning, as well as on the use of team-based ethnographic research methods, have appeared in a variety of publications.
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