424: Deep Purpose is the Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies with Ranjay Gulati
Read to Lead Podcast
Jeff Brown
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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When you end an interview with a Harvard Business School professor and he tells you your questions made him think, it kinda makes your day (or maybe your week, your month, your year, or, perhaps your life)! Though we may not see eye-to-eye on all the issues he presented, I consider the chance to chat […]
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Read to Lead podcast, episode 424. |
| 0:12.8 | Hi, I'm Ken Blanchard, author of dozens of books, including the one minute manager and fit at last. |
| 0:18.1 | And one way to stay mentally fit is listen to the read to lead |
| 0:22.4 | podcasts with my friend Jeff Brown. The term purpose has been hijacked. The vast majority of |
| 0:28.9 | companies today deploy a corporate purpose superficially as a promotional vehicle to make themselves |
| 0:34.6 | appear virtuous to the outside world or to rally employees. |
| 0:38.8 | And that's the assertion of my guest today. |
| 0:41.5 | Hi, I'm Jeff Brown, and this is the Read to Lead podcast, the podcast dedicated to your |
| 0:46.9 | personal and professional growth, where I believe that if you want to achieve true success |
| 0:50.9 | in your business and in your life that intentional and consistent reading |
| 0:54.9 | is a must. Each week, I welcome another successful and inspiring author, and we chat about |
| 1:00.8 | their latest book and their unique insights on a number of different topics like personal |
| 1:05.0 | and professional development, leadership, business, productivity, career, marketing, sales, |
| 1:09.0 | entrepreneurship, and much more. |
| 1:15.4 | Today, we're being joined by Harvard Professor Ron J. Galati. He's author of a brand new book, |
| 1:20.1 | several books actually, but a brand new one called Deep Purpose, the Heart and Soul of High Performance Companies. I'll be asking Professor Galati to share about how deep purpose varies when |
| 1:25.2 | applied to companies versus us as human beings, why he believes |
| 1:28.8 | that companies and individual leaders need to be willing to take on politically sensitive issues, |
| 1:34.4 | a particular belief I don't happen to agree with, what is practical idealism, how it differs |
| 1:40.1 | from conscious capitalism, and why it's better, and lots more. As this episode is being published, |
| 1:46.7 | I am getting on a plane to travel to State College, Pennsylvania, and address tomorrow |
| 1:52.1 | the leadership and staff at a construction company will be engaged in a half-day workshop called |
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