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

by Peter Rea, James K. Stoller, Alan Kolp

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781264278152
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	12/26/2022
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	620,976
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

Peter Rea is Vice President–Integrity and Ethics at Parker Hannifin Corporation. Previously, Peter was Business Dean and founding Burton D. Morgan Chair Entrepreneurial Studies and founding director of Baldwin-Wallace’s Center for Innovation & Growth. He is also a Business Professor.

Dr. James K. Stoller, Chairman of the Education Institute at Cleveland Clinic, holds the Jean Wall Bennett Professorship of Medicine at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, the Samson Global Leadership Academy Endowed Chair, and is Adjunct Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Weatherhead School of Management of Case Western Reserve University. He practices pulmonary medicine as a member of the Cleveland Clinic Respiratory Institute.

Alan Kolp is Faculty in Residence and former holder of the Baldwin Wallace University Chair in Faith & Life and co-founder of the Center for Innovation & Growth. He earned degrees from Guilford College, Harvard Divinity School, and Harvard University.

Table of Contents

Preface: How Do We Get Great Performance? ix

Acknowledgments xv

1 Better Humans, Better Performance 1

2 The Seven Classical Virtues 21

3 Organizational Culture 47

4 Hire for Character, Train for Competence 59

5 Teamwork 75

6 Resilience 103

7 Engagement 125

8 Raising and Teaching Better Humans, by Julie Rea 145

9 Driving Innovation 161

10 Creating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion 185

11 Restoring Cultures 207

12 Coaching 217

13 Forming Good Habits 233

14 The Value of Virtue 251

Epilogue 265

Notes 271

Index 287