Better Humans, Better Performance: Driving Leadership, Teamwork, and Culture with Intentionality - Hardcover

Rea, Peter J.; Stoller, James K.; Kolp, Alan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1264278152 ISBN 13: 9781264278152

Publisher: McGraw Hill, 2023

Synopsis

Build a sustainable high-performance culture around the seven classical virtues

Virtue is more than a word: It’s a way for us all to live, a way to flourish as human beings. And when applied to organizational life, virtue serves to enhance engagement, strengthen teamwork, and foster success in business. Better Humans, Better Performance connects the classical virtues―Trust, Compassion, Courage, Justice, Temperance, Wisdom, and Hope―with science that can help you achieve results in areas such as:

• Cultivating excellence in leadership
• High performing teams
• Cultures that drive performance outcomes
• Character education for families
• Integrity as a growth market
• The science of resiliency
• Coaching, deliberate practice, and habits of high performance

Better Humans, Better Performance is a practical guide to achieving individual, team, and organizational performance.

About this title

About the Author

Peter Rea is Vice President of Integrity and Ethics at Parker Hannifin Corporation and Professor of Business Administration at Baldwin Wallace University. He serves on Ohio University’s Medical School Advisory Board.

James Stoller, MD, is Chairman of the Education Institute at Cleveland Clinic and a pulmonary/critical care physician in the Cleveland Clinic Respiratory Institute. He is the co-author (with Peter Rea and Alan Kolp) of Exception to the Rule.

Alan Kolp is holder of the Baldwin Wallace Chair in Faith & Life and Professor of Religion at Baldwin Wallace University.

From the Back Cover

"A refreshingly practical book on how it’s possible to achieve success by cultivating virtues. The authors show how being a good person can actually make you into a better performer.
– Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast Re:Thinking

"The title of this book says it all. Better humans do drive better and more sustained results... This book is the most comprehensive and compelling book I have read that ties virtue to performance."
 —Steve Reinemund, Former Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo
Retired Dean Wake Forest University School of Business
 
"How do we know ideas from Better Human, Better Performance created a resilient culture despite pressure and uncertainty? In addition to the enriching culture we built to recruit and retain nearly 1200 people to the Cleveland Clinic London team, we also proudly have achieved engagement scores that were among the highest in the Clinic’s system of 70,000 caregivers.”
 —Brian Donley, Chief Executive Officer, Cleveland Clinic London   
 
 "A company’s financial value is measured by the balance sheet. A company’s true value is in its team members, its culture, and how well its people perform together every day. Better Humans, Better Performance is a great tool for building on that value."
 —Parker Chief Financial Officers, Jon Marten, 2010-2017; Cathy Suever, 2018-2021; Todd Leombruno, started 2021
 
 "Decades of work with elite performers across domains as diverse as sports, art, business, special military operations, nonprofits, divinity, medicine, and many others has taught us this.  Some of the most powerful performance determinants have to do with an individual’s character as defined by virtue, regardless of pure talent."
 —Andy Walshe, PhD, Chief Executive Officer and founding member of Liminal Collective 
 
"Character defined as virtue has a profound performance impact on culture, teamwork, resiliency, coaching, families, innovation, diversity and more. Better Humans, Better Performance captures why the word compete means “strive together.”
 —R.C. Buford, Chief Executive Officer for Spurs Sports and Entertainment
 
"By spotlighting the classical virtues and clearly making the connection between better people and better performance, the authors have given us a time tested and researched based framework to rely upon in those moments when the path seems unclear and the choices seem impossible." 
 —Chris Antonetti, Cleveland Guardians, President of Baseball Operations
 

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1264278152
• ISBN 13: 9781264278152
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320