What drives the work of the world’s leading management thinkers?
That was the question posed at Thinkers50@BUQuestrom: Passion & Purpose, a live virtual event held at Boston University Questrom School of Business on 20th April 2023.
Co-sponsored by Thinkers50, Passion & Purpose sought to uncover the motivation behind top management thinkers: What inspires their research? What gets them out of bed in the morning? How do they translate their passions into purpose and impact for business?
To challenge the thinkers a little further, each one had just 15 minutes to deliver their idea – including questions from the audience.
From the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, Laura Morgan Roberts posed the question: are you bringing your best self to work?
A Thinkers50 Ranked Thinker, Roberts asked how so many of us drift out of alignment with our best selves and set out her ‘3 Rs’ solution as the ‘alignment request’: to Redefine, Realign, and Redesign. If we are misaligned, Roberts pointed out – if we don’t attend to slight drifts in focus – it makes it harder for us to steer around the potholes in our path.