“This book provides a roadmap … where every employee contributes to the company’s bottom line while also making a difference in the world.”
Mark Weick, Lead Director, Sustainability and Enterprise Risk Management, The Dow Chemical Company
What others are saying about Leadership and Purpose:
“Kathy Miller Perkins is a pioneer in studying how organizational culture and leadership affects a company’s sustainability efforts. Her rare combination of research skills and years of practical experience have made this book a useful guide for any business leader looking to integrate sustainability issues in corporate strategy.”
George Serafeim
Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School“Evidenced-based advice is rare, high quality longitudinal study even rarer…. the deep evidence-based advice and practical tools regarding purpose, organizations, and their cultures that Kathy provides could hardly be more important, not only to organizations but to the societies in which they operate.”
Jerry Abrams
Envisioneer at the Center for Creative Leadership and Senior Fellow with the Center for Leadership in Global Sustainability“Kathy’s work with Brown-Forman in the early days of deepening and advancing our sustainability commitment helped put us on a path to better understand and leverage culture, purpose and employee engagement. Like a fine cocktail, this book provides just the right mix of thought leadership, research, guidance and tools to accelerate sustainability progress.”
Rob Frederick
VP & Director, Corporate Brand and Communications | Brown-Forman CorporationLeadership and Purpose: How to Create a Sustainable Culture
by Kathleen Miller Perkins
July 2019: 184pp, 3 illustrations
Hb: 978-0-367-21769-3 • eBook: 978-0-429-26595-2
Companies that have integrated a contribution to society into their business models are more likely than others to succeed over the long term. Based on a 10-year research program, Leadership and Purpose provides evidence for how the cultures of sustainable companies differentiate them from others. The book provides tools for becoming a sustainable company as well as case studies of business leaders’ experiences – their mistakes, their successes, the lessons they learned – to illustrate their journey. This book is for every leader at all levels: CEOs, senior leaders, managers and those without formal positions of authority but who influence others and contribute to a sustainable culture.