Purpose Meets Execution: How Winning Organizations Accelerate Engagement and Drive Profits

by Louis Efron

Overview

Business today is up against a myriad of complexities — disruptive competition and technologies, volatile economic forces, and a complex and evolving work force. There is unending pressure to do more with less, deliver short-term goals while driving long-term sustainability, all while finding and retaining the top talent to get it done. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138049093
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/23/2017
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Louis Efron was head of Global Employee Engagement for Tesla Motors (a role created for him), International VP HR JDA Software, VP HR Stryker, a Fortune 300 medical device company. With Tesla Motors, he launched their first global employee engagement initiative in 2015. The tactics he employed produced measurable systemic and dynamic change. He has worked globally across diverse industries such as entertainment, medical, software, and automotive/technology.

He is curruntly CEO of the newly founded Purpose Meets Execution, Founder of Louis Efron, LLC, The Voice of Purpose, and author of How to Find a Job, Career and Life You Love. Efron contributes regularly to both Forbes & Huffington Post and is an in-demand keynote speaker, delivering events across the globe. He is known for inspiring audiences to action though meaningful insights that help bring their businesses to the next level.

Efron is an award winning human resources executive, entrepreneur, writer, theatre director, producer, consultant, speaker and founder of the charity World Child Cancer USA. He has lived and worked throughout the US, Europe, Africa, and Asia. He studied Labor Relations at Cornell University, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and Advanced Leadership at Harvard Business School. He holds a BA from California State University, Fullerton, as well as a BS and JD from Saratoga University School of Law.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Part I: Building an Unshakable Foundation

Chapter 1: Starting with Purpose

Chapter 2: Finding Your Way

Chapter 3: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Purpose

Chapter 4: Executional Excellence

Chapter 5: Where Purpose Meets Execution

Part II: Creating One Team

Chapter 6: Establishing Trust

Chapter 7: Accelerating People Engagement

Chapter 8: Connecting Peoples’ Actions to the Bigger Picture

Part III: Realizing a Winning Culture

Chapter 9: Bringing Purpose to Life

Chapter 10: Keeping Your Promises

Chapter 11: Getting the Balance Between Purpose and Execution Right

Chapter 12: Changing the World through Leadership

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

References