Better Humans, Better Performance: Driving Leadership, Teamwork, and Culture With Intentionality - Hardcover

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Peter Rea is Vice President–Integrity and Ethics at Parker Hannifin Corporation. Previously, Peter was Business Dean and founding Burton D. Morgan Chair Entrepreneurial Studies and founding director of Baldwin-Wallace’s Center for Innovation & Growth.  He is also a Business Professor.

Dr. James K. Stoller, Chairman of the Education Institute at Cleveland Clinic, holds the Jean Wall Bennett Professorship of Medicine at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, the Samson Global Leadership Academy Endowed Chair, and is Adjunct Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Weatherhead School of Management of Case Western Reserve University. He practices pulmonary medicine as a member of the Cleveland Clinic Respiratory Institute.

Alan Kolp is Faculty in Residence and former holder of the Baldwin Wallace University Chair in Faith & Life and co-founder of the Center for Innovation & Growth. He earned degrees from Guilford College, Harvard Divinity School, and Harvard University.

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"A refreshingly practical book on how it’s possible to achieve success by cultivating virtues. The authors show how being a good person can actually make you into a better performer.
– Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast Re:Thinking

"The title of this book says it all. Better humans do drive better and more sustained results... This book is the most comprehensive and compelling book I have read that ties virtue to performance."
 —Steve Reinemund, Former Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo
Retired Dean Wake Forest University School of Business
 
"How do we know ideas from Better Human, Better Performance created a resilient culture despite pressure and uncertainty? In addition to the enriching culture we built to recruit and retain nearly 1200 people to the Cleveland Clinic London team, we also proudly have achieved engagement scores that were among the highest in the Clinic’s system of 70,000 caregivers.”
 —Brian Donley, Chief Executive Officer, Cleveland Clinic London   
 
 "A company’s financial value is measured by the balance sheet. A company’s true value is in its team members, its culture, and how well its people perform together every day. Better Humans, Better Performance is a great tool for building on that value."
 —Parker Chief Financial Officers, Jon Marten, 2010-2017; Cathy Suever, 2018-2021; Todd Leombruno, started 2021
 
 "Decades of work with elite performers across domains as diverse as sports, art, business, special military operations, nonprofits, divinity, medicine, and many others has taught us this.  Some of the most powerful performance determinants have to do with an individual’s character as defined by virtue, regardless of pure talent."
 —Andy Walshe, PhD, Chief Executive Officer and founding member of Liminal Collective 
 
"Character defined as virtue has a profound performance impact on culture, teamwork, resiliency, coaching, families, innovation, diversity and more. Better Humans, Better Performance captures why the word compete means “strive together.”
 —R.C. Buford, Chief Executive Officer for Spurs Sports and Entertainment
 
"By spotlighting the classical virtues and clearly making the connection between better people and better performance, the authors have given us a time tested and researched based framework to rely upon in those moments when the path seems unclear and the choices seem impossible." 
 —Chris Antonetti, Cleveland Guardians, President of Baseball Operations