Reading List: It’s Not What You Sell, It’s What You Stand For: Why Every Extraordinary Business Is Driven by Purpose

It’s Not What You Sell, It’s What You Stand For: Why Every Extraordinary Business Is Driven by PurposeOver the last thirty-five years, Roy Spence has helped organizations such as Southwest Airlines, BMW, the University of Texas, Wal-Mart, the Clinton Global Initiative, and many others achieve greatness by obsessing about one big idea: purpose. With purpose as the North Star, employee engagement is higher, competition is less threatening, customers are more loyal, and innovation flows.As Spence writes, “Purpose is a reason for being that goes beyond making money-and it almost always results in making more money than you ever thought possible.” Especially during times of great economic uncertainty, purpose is the key to creating and maintaining a high- performing organization, deserving just as much attention as strategy, execution, and innovation.