Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit at the World's Greatest Companies

Draws on nine years of empirical research with 50,000 companies to demonstrate how top-performing businesses in a range of fields have effectively connected with fundamental human emotions to improve financial performance, outlining an action framework that draws on the examples of leading businesses and management guides. Simultaneous.

As Global Marketing Officer from 2001 to 2008, Jim Stengel led the effort to leverage higher ideals in brands throughout Procter & Gamble. Since 2008 he has been CEO of The Jim Stengel Company, a think tank and consultancy conducting proprietary research, generating thought leadership and applying his ideals-driven framework to drive business growth. He is also an adjunct professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, and serves on the boards of directors of Motorola Mobility and AOL Jim has published in Harvard Business Review and was recently named to Fortune magazine’s First Executive Dream Team. Jim and his wife Kathleen live in Cincinnati, Ohio and Coronado, California.