The Puritan Gift: Reclaiming the American Dream Amidst Global Financial Chaos

by William Hopper and Kenneth Hopper

Book Overview

Where does the Protestant work ethic come from? And how did America achieve such dominance in management for so long? "The Puritan Gift" traces the origins and the characteristics of American managerial culture which, in the course of three centuries, turned a group of small colonies into the greatest economic and political power on earth. It argues that the drive, energy and acceptance of innovation, competition, growth and social mobility, all of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184511986X
• ISBN13: 9781845119867
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.1" x 7.6"