CHAPTER 10Implications for Executives, Human Resources, and Individuals

So, how do the seven principles and actions of abundant organizations apply to business executives leading organizations, to human resource professionals who work to institutionalize these ideas, and to individuals who seek meaning from the work they do?

Two Cases

Rodney Smith is the president of a small liberal arts university in rural Virginia. The idyllic campus was purchased about 15 years ago from a failing finishing school for girls, with the idea of creating a small Eastern mission-based university for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—Mormon kids who more typically head to church- or state-run colleges in the West. Southern Virginia University ...

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