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Passion and Purpose: Stories from the Best and Brightest Young Business Leaders Hardcover – November 29, 2011

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Globalization. Sustainability. Technology. Diversity. Learning. Convergence of the public and private sectors. These are the big issues on the minds of young leaders today—the challenges they most want to, and must, pursue.

In Passion and Purpose, dozens of recent Harvard Business School MBAs share personal stories on assuming the mantle of leadership in ways unlike any previous generation. In candid accounts of their successes and setbacks—from launching start-ups to taking on the family business to helping kids in the Arabian Gulf to harnessing new technology and developing clean energy—they reveal how the next generation of ideas, aspirations, and practices are shaping business and redefining leadership around the world.

Drawing on insights from a survey of 500 students from top U.S. business schools, Passion and Purpose provides an overview of big, hot-button issues, followed by firsthand accounts from young leaders who are tackling these issues head-on. Their personal stories are rounded out with broader perspectives from established luminaries in business, academia, and the public sector, including Dominic Barton (Managing Director of McKinsey & Company), Nitin Nohria (dean of Harvard Business School), David Gergen (CNN analyst, presidential advisor and director of Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership), Carter Roberts (CEO of World Wildlife Fund), and many others.

Passion and Purpose offers profound insight into the values and vision of tomorrow’s leaders, and inspiration and ideas for all aspiring leaders who hope to lead change in the world.

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“Leaders in each generation face several challenges that are quite different from those that confronted leaders in earlier generations and are also quite different from those that leaders in future generations will encounter. It was ever thus and always will be true. That is one of several reasons why I think so highly of this book.” — Blogging about Business (bobmorris.biz)

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"wholly infectious", and an "upbeat, enjoyable read—as well as a useful one.” – The Financial Times

“…the reader is rewarded with a richness of information and a great view of things to come in the business world, based on the stories of these young leaders. Summing Up: Recommended for students, upper-division undergraduate and up; faculty; practitioners.” — CHOICE

“Far from accounts of the stereotypical generation of entitled slackers, the stories in Passion and Purpose demonstrate the innovation, collaboration, efficiency, and independence of rising young leaders.” — Training + Development Magazine

“We’re introduced to a group of highly impressive MBAs who want to change the world for the better… The result is a surprisingly compelling array of vivid storytelling that reveals this generation’s ideas and aspirations.” “In the end, Coleman and his two buddies have pulled together a book that is less about mainstream MBA thinking than it is a clarion call to a less-traveled, yet potentially more impactful MBA path.” – John Byrne, Poets & Quants (PoetsandQuants.com)

About the Author

John Coleman earned an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Dean’s Award winner, and an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School, where he was a Zuckerman Fellow and a George Fellow. Daniel Gulati holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Fellow and an Arthur Rock Fellow, and is the founding CEO of FashionStake, a venture-backed fashion company. W. Oliver Segovia received an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School, and is an entrepreneur in the Philippines and Singapore, where he previously worked with Procter & Gamble Asia.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harvard Business Review Press; Edition Unstated (November 29, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1422162664
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1422162668
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.22 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.43 x 1.09 x 9.51 inches

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John Coleman is a senior executive in financial services. He is the author of three books and a regular contributor to Forbes Leadership Channel and Harvard Business Review, where he focuses on personal development and leadership issues.
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Oliver is a Filipino entrepreneur. He holds an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School where he was a LeBarron-MacArthur-Ellis Fellow and a board director of the Harbus News Corporation. His work experience spans consumer products, publishing, real estate and e-commerce. Oliver worked with Procter & Gamble Asia, where he helped launch new products and marketing campaigns for emerging markets in Asia, and with McKinsey & Company. After business school, he co-founded a real estate company and an e-commerce start-up.
A former college debating champion, Oliver is passionate about entrepreneurship and innovation in emerging markets. He was the founding editor-in-chief of the Ateneo Student Business Review, a college business magazine. In 2005, he won first prize in the World Bank's International Essay Competition for a paper on debate education in developing countries.
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George M. Hiller Jr.

An agreeable and relevant study into the nature of leadership

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 5, 2011

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In an age and global business climate of increasing diversity, plurality, and complexity Passion and Purpose, written in a lucid and accessible style, offers a timely study into the activities and pursuits of young business leaders. The testimonial stories are refreshingly honest and transparent as emerging leaders, involved in a variety of different fields and work environments, candidly discuss their career goals and noble aspirations and also the inevitable obstacles and setbacks they have encountered along the way. These reflections yield valuable insights into the nature of risk, failure, and consequential decision making, along with the opportunities for the professional and personal growth that can result through tackling difficult problems and engaging with pressing business challenges head on. Most encouraging to me is that this group of MBAs seems to intuitively understand that what the global business culture of the future needs is principled servant leadership that rises above the pettiness of self-seeking narrow ambition and strives to bring out the best qualities in all whom they influence - Leadership that elevates the needs of our society as a whole. Examples of virtuous, sacrificial leadership cannot be shared often enough. Through undertaking this project John Coleman, Daniel Gulati, and W. Oliver Segovia have done the business world a most welcome service. I heartily recommend Passion and Purpose.

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J. Harris

The Motivations for a New Generation of Business Leadership

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 13, 2012

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As a student in a non-Harvard MBA program, this book echoes many of the themes I hear from peers looking to find meaning to accompany their future paychecks. The book does read like a series of admission essays, sadly, but if you can cut through the formulaic approach taken by many of the contributors you will find some very interesting stories from MBAs that have taken the less-well-worn path. The book lacks diversity -- most contributors have an affiliation with either HBS or McKinsey -- but I think the themes are valid. Ironically, for a book about the "new leadership" the end-of-chapter interviews with experienced industry heads are probably the best part.

The values driving the latest generation of MBAs are hard to define but certainly shifting beyond simply providing financial returns to shareholders. I think this book is an admirable effort to place a stake in the ground regarding the most important trends for future government and business leaders to focus on.

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The book is also abundant with some by-products insights that any would-to-be businessperson will find useful. I recommend it

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 15, 2015

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The book discusses the axes current and future leaders must consider in building successful businesses. Those axes are: Convergence, Globalization, People, Sustainability, Technology and Learning. Through the stories of HBS graduates, the book explores different facets of each of those axes, emphasizing on why they are important and presenting specific experiences of how they've been implemented.
I find the structure of the book suitable to its purpose; it's at the intersection between a rigidly structured work and a story: So they are stories organized according to a specific structure.
Knowledge in Business Administration is sometimes required to fully grasp some insights of the book though this doesn't prevent from arriving at an honorable understanding of the subject matter. The book is also abundant with some by-products insights that any would-to-be businessperson will find useful.
I recommend it!

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Ben Brinkopf

A moving and inspiring read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 18, 2011

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Each one of the book's contributors, a true mosaic of socially-conscious innovators, offers a unique perspective on a different leadership topic. These individuals emphasize the breadth of twenty-first century business and how the reach of their enterprises often extends beyond purely the private sector, engaging public-sector institutions and common global social issues. By juxtaposing these young business leaders' stories with interviews of business school deans, storied CEOs and other accomplished professionals, the book's scope is expanded and provides historical business context to the central themes that the authors present.

Touching on a variety of timely subjects--globalization, technology, learning, sustainability, etc--Passion & Purpose creates a new and refreshing dialogue illustrating those merging individual passions with innovative business leadership. I found the stories and people profiled both moving and inspiring.

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john

Interesting and Insightful

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 3, 2011

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I think the authors have taken a very interesting and insightful look at the challenges of leadership in the changing world we live in. I found the passion of these young people as they related their stories in the interviews to be encouraging and hopeful. As older people we always look for positive examples from the next generation. I found those positive examples in these young leaders. Well written and well worth the time spent reading it. I am going to recommend Passion and Purpose to my friends.

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rjreidy2@aol.com

Story time for business people

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 9, 2013

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Coleman has selected a number of examples of interesting stories that can be gleaned for future or even existing business personnel that might be applied to gheir careers.

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Seb L

Just a collection of essays

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 30, 2013

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This really seems like some kind of pep talk book for students and grads, full of stories by other grads who seem rather full of themselves. Sure, there are some interesting stories, however, the reality that most grads should brace themselves for is rather more mundane corporate jobs where falling in line with the boss is more the norm. Defeat lye give this a miss if you're in the corporate world and in your thirties...

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Hong Hong Lin

A collection of short stories of young successful professionals (privileged) ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 8, 2015

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A collection of short stories of young successful professionals (privileged). Nothing out of ordinary. I wasn't sure what the take away is.

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Chandra Shekhar Pandey

Refreshing views & takes

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on April 3, 2021

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Refreshing views of next generation leaders in pursuit of solving next generation problems as bottoms up approach. A good collection of viewpoints which otherwise gets lost in information overload.

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Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on June 4, 2013

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Endlich ein Buch, das die Perspektive der Generation Y im Kontext von Führung behandelt. Mir haben besonders die Beispiele aus dem non profit Bereich gefallen. Lohnt sich!

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