The Puritan gift : triumph, collapse and revival of an American dream
Financial Times Top Ten Business Book of 2007! The Puritan Gift traces the origins and the characteristics of American managerial culture which, in the course of three centuries, would turn a group of small colonies into the greatest economic and political power on earth. It was the Protestant ethic whose characteristics--thrift, a respect for enquiry, individualism tempered by a need to cooperate, success as a measure of divine approval--helped to create the conditions which led to America's managerial and corporate success. Thus, the authors contend, the drive, energy and acceptance of innovation, competition, growth and social mobility, all have their origins in the discipline and ethos of America's first wave of European immigrants: the Puritans. And, the authors warn, as Americans distance themselves from core values which produced their nineteenth and twentieth century business and economic successes, they endanger the basis for their prosperity and security
eBook, English, 2007
I.B. Tauris ; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, London, New York, 2007
History
1 online resource (xvi, 334 pages) : illustrations
9781435615991, 9781850434191, 9781282751026, 1435615999, 1850434190, 1282751026
184742265
THE PURITAN GIFTCONSOLIDATED LIST OF CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS (as of 08/10/08)Page Lines from top ChangesDEDICATION PAGEv add the following poem towards the centre of the page:One ship sails East and another West,By the self-same winds that blow.‘Tis the set of the sails, and not the gales,That tells the way we go. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Poems of Progress. 1911.>First Light of the True Dawn? >>Do the same to the chapter heading on page 262 and to the page headings on pages 265, 267, 269, 271, 273, 275 & 277PREFACExi 10 Italicise: >>Ecole Polytechnique>>12 after >>France.>> add: >>Anderson’s College is now the University of Strathclyde.>> 15 replace: >>Systematic Organic Chemistry (1937),>> with: >>Systematic Organic Chemistry: Modern Methods of Preparation and Estimation (1923, 1931, 1937, 1950), >> 33 add: >>to>> in front of: >>a Japan>> 37 add period after: >>.com.>>xii 15 replace >>special>> with: >>specialist>> 37 insert >>(sic)>> after: >>technical>> 24 replace >>(see page 114)>> with: >>(see pages 114 and 115)>>: 27 add >>the late>> in front of: >>George>>ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSxiv 05 insert >>Electronic>> in front of >>Network>>Mark Tully,>> add >>Roger Schenke, Executive Vice President, the American College of Physician Executives; Professor Peter Kawalek, Manchester Business School; David Howard, Management-NewStyle Limited >>12 replace >>Brinkman>> with: >>Brinkmann>> 14 replace >>Kenneth>> with: >>Kenton>> 15 omit >>David Howard>> 18 replace >>, as well as>> with: >> ; >> 20 insert comma after >>Jersey>> 20 replace >>as well as>> with >>and>> 17 add >>Gerald Shalet>> before >>Martin Shelley>> 17 add >>Anthony Tylecote,>> after >>Martin Shelly,>>NOTE TO EDITOR: PLEASE ENSURE THAT NAMES IN THE SECOND PARA ON THIS PAGE ARE IN STRICT ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY SURNAMEPROLOGUExvi 19 replace >>in June 2006>> with >>in BusinessWeek in 2006>> [note: BusinessWeek is one word.]PART I: ORIGINS(no changes)CHAPTER 103 epigraph Zeale is but a wilde-fire without knowledge. Rev. John Cotton. Boston, Massachusetts. 1651. 04 add >>of the United States>> after: >>most citizens>> 10/11 remove >>intimately>> [word appears twice in para]06 04/06 substitute: >>An anonymous source tells us that etc>> for: >>Captain Staughton…to England that etc>>31 replace >>would do>> with >>did>>10 04 replace >>expression>> with >>exposition>> [misquotation]12 09 insert >>in mid-July:>> after >>Thames>>13 03 Insert before >>For a century and a half…>> the following para:>>The settlers of the 1630s had modeled themselves on the people of the Old Testament, the Puritan values and practices which Tawney described so vividly being largely Jewish in inspiration. It is therefore not surprising that, when first German and then Russian Jews moved in large numbers to the New World in the nineteenth century, they should have found the established American mores to their liking and become successful in business. In so doing, the newcomers both perpetuated and enhanced the great tradition of good management inherited from the first settlers. (Interestingly, the prophet Mani is said to have formed his religious outlook while dwelling in an ascetic Jew