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 directs their research? What keeps them awake at night and gets them out of bed in the morning? In a fast-paced ideas jam, 14 thinkers each had 15 minutes to present their passion and purpose.
Laura Morgan Roberts from the University of Virginia’s Darden School and a Thinkers50 Ranked Thinker, posed the question: are you bringing your best self to work? She asked how so many of us drift out of alignment with our best selves, and set out her three-part solution, the alignment quest: to redefine, realign, and redesign. If we are misaligned, Roberts pointed out, it is harder for us to steer around the potholes in our path.