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Kenneth Hopper Author of the award winning book
The Puritan Gift
David C Roberts Hopper Foundation for Good Management Practice
What is the Puritan Gift?
The Puritan Gift is a rare ability to create organizations that serve a useful purpose, and to manage them well.
The book depicts how America’s superb managerial culture, originating in seventeenth-century New England, evolved to make the United States the most powerful nation on earth.
What is the Puritan Gift?
The gift is embodied in four intertwined characteristics -- the mind-set if you will – of traditional American society.
A vision for the long term; an aptitude for the exercise of mechanical skills; a moral outlook that subordinated the interest of the individual to the group; and an ability to assemble, galvanize and marshal, financial, material and human resources on a massive ( or lesser) scale.
Characteristics of the Puritan Gift?
The gift is embodied in the characteristics -- the mind-set if you will – of traditional American society.
A vision for the long term
Those in charge having a deep understanding of the organisation
Putting the community before themselves
Superb skill at organisation
America’s Gift to Japan after WWII via the CCS
The mature corporate culture that emerged
would be successfully transferred to Japan
under the US Occupation (1945-1952) by the
CCS initiating at first a managerial revolution,
and then an economic revolution that
transformed a poor country ravaged by war and
lacking natural resources into the second
richest in the world.
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America’s Gift to the World
Moreover, the principles and practices enshrined in this
culture would be re-exported from Japan to other parts
of East Asia in the 1960's and 1970's to the future
Asian Tigers of Taiwan and then on to an impoverished
mainland China which has enjoyed the greatest
economic boom ever experienced anywhere in human
history.
Why is the book important?
It is important because when we look back at East Asia
it was not a peaceful place - the Vietnam War, Pol Pot,
the Great Chinese Famine - this part of the world is
transformed through manufacturing development and
the transfer of the lessons taught to the Japanese through
the CCS.
Have we forgotten the lessons of the Puritan Gift?
We argue that it is important that the message is shared,
especially when we look at the state of the world today.
It’s important for the ongoing success of the people of the
developed world and it’s important for the future success of the
developing world.
And, as we witnessed in Japan - no nation is condemned by its
past.
“The Greatest Management story ever told”Paul Kearns,
The Maturity Institute. “An Astonishing Book”
Sarah Cliffe, Editor, Harvard Business Review.
“This is one of the best books that I have ever read in my long life, and not just Business books”
Russell Lincoln Ackoff
Contact details and links to more information about the Puritan Gift and the work of Ken Hopper
The Hopper Foundation
Ken Hopper’s papers at the Drucker Institute
ThePuritanGift.com
Publishers IB Taurus
Honoring Homer Sarashon
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