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1 Chapter 1 : If Harry Potter Ran General Electric & 3 Other Books by Tom Morris (All Signed) ebay In If Harry Potter Ran General Electric, bestselling business author Tom Morris (If Aristotle Ran General Motors) uncovers the values and timeless truths that underlie Rowling's hugely popular books and illuminates the lessons they offer to all of us in our careers and daily lives. But, you say, Harry Potter lives in a world of magic. A former distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, he is now the most active public philosopher America advising the corporate world. He parses her stories for what they might tell us about the importance of virtues and ethics in the business world, referring a little to Aristotle and Kierkegaard for philosophical weight, plus a dash of eloquent advice from GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt for real-life relevance. A natural leader, Harry takes after Headmaster Dumbledore, an "Aristotelian figure" and "the essence of leadership," a quality Morris compares to alchemy, since good leaders "transform ordinary people into great performers. All rights reserved Booklist Review Morris uses J. Morris designates General Electric the symbol for major corporations, citing GE as a role model because it seems to have been endowed with magic from its early beginnings. Effusive references to both Rowling and the company are woven into the text, yet it is unclear if either gave their blessing to Morris for this effort. Nevertheless, with the current popularity of the Harry Potter characters and the reputation of GE, Morris cleverly draws upon these high-profile entities to present his leadership ideas to business executives. Here, Morris, a former University of Notre Dame philosophy professor, conjures up lessons from the wizarding world in what could be considered a follow-up to his best-selling If Aristotle Ran General Motors. He philosophizes on leadership, using Hogwarts headmaster Dumbledore as the archetype and Harry Potter as his ideal for courage. He even tackles the important issues of wisdom, happiness, and meaning. Of the current roundup books, this should enjoy the broadest appeal in all types of libraries; its characters are well known in popular culture while its philosophical themes extend well beyond business. The Oxford English Dictionary defines a "hero" as a "man of super-human qualities, favored by the gods," an "illustrious warrior," and as a "man admired for achievements and noble qualities. The princi-pal difference is that Harry is just starting to find his footing on the high road of heroism. When we first meet him, Professor Dumble-dore is already far along the path. He is in many ways a paradigmatic leader. Dumbledore is like a light on a hill, the North Star, an ancient bea-con that keeps voyagers from crashing in the fog. He is the embodi-ment of nobility, goodness, prowess, wisdom, intelligence, and sound perspective. He is also a kind of old-fashioned surrogate father figure to Harry: He is also a powerful protector and a vigilant guardian for all those around him. To fill out the picture further, this masterful leader is also some-thing of a Renaissance man, having a diversity of personal interests and accomplishments outside the realm of his primary responsibili-ties. As in the case of the Management Guru and CEO trading cards that gained some humorous attention in the real world of business a few years ago, the top performers in the world of the wizards are also featured and briefly profiled on trading cards that the younger wiz-ards-in-training collect and swap. The biggest difference is that the featured wizards can move around in the photos reproduced on their cards and wave or wink at anyone looking at them. The card in honor of Dumbledore states that he is widely considered to be the greatest wizard of the modern age and mentions, among his many achieve-ments, his renowned defeat of a well-known dark wizard, as well as his important discoveries in the fields of chemistry and alchemy, along with his love of chamber music and bowling. We learn at the beginning of book six that his interests range as far as to include a love for knitting patterns. With his well-rounded life, personality, and character, the headmaster is simply what all adults ought to be. He also displays, in a great many ways, the essence of leadership excellence. In each of these respects, he is an ideal role model for the young Harry as he grows and develops. He is a one-man study of wisdom at work in the world. He embodies the virtues essential to leadership excellence and guides his own path for-ward with a profound philosophy of life. He sets the standard high for what all wizards-and the rest of us, too-should aspire to become. Because of this, we need to take a bit of time to see exactly what he is like. I had been wondering: If one of the greatest thinkers in all of human history-the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle-could magically be put in charge of a major modern corporation-like the huge automaker General Motors-what would happen? Page 1

2 How might things be different? What would be important to a great thinker like Aristotle in this sort of context? How would he lead others to a more sustainable excel-lence and a more satisfying form of success? As I worked on the answers to these questions, I discovered more than I ever could have imagined. Most of the important action in these books centers around the Hogwarts School of Witch-craft and Wizardry, where Harry and his friends are students. What if Aristotle ran Hogwarts? What would this amazing school be like with the great philosopher of the ages as its headmaster? What wisdom would he put into action? How would things be done? What would a sage like Aristotle do to inspire his staff and students to success? But as soon as I began to ask this question, or cluster of questions, it struck me that there is one simple, surprising answer. If the ancient philosopher Aristotle could be transported magically through time and across the firm yet translucent barrier between real-ity and fiction to run Hogwarts, he might well be nearly indistinguish-able from the actual headmaster, the wise and good Dumbledore. Dumbledore is a master in something resembling the traditional technical sense, and Harry is his chief apprentice. The two of them together display some of the central elements of this classic form of education. The greatest teachers are always masters of their subjects who lead, train, guide, and inspire their student apprentices to their own forms of excellence. They never just pass on information. The master is a model, coach, helper, and motivator as well as a teacher and trainer. Watching what a master does and how he does it is every bit as important for an apprentice as hearing what he says and how he says it. In fact, as the influential British scientist and philosopher Michael Polanyi explained in his classic book Personal Knowl-edge, some of the most important insights and skills embodied by a true master can never fully be put into words and can only be shown, not said. The classroom for this sort of teacher always extends beyond the walls of any schoolroom or office and encompasses much more of life. Harry learns from his headmaster in all sorts of settings and in all sorts of ways. What he is learning, in bits and pieces and in fits and starts, is the way of true greatness. The best leaders teach by example and guide with encouragement. We all need to remember that people are watching us and learning from us by seeing what we do as well as hearing what we say. If we comport ourselves like Dumble-dore, and thereby show the people around us the proper way forward, we have the ability to communicate and convey true greatness to others. But, typically, like young Harry, we first need to get our own model of greatness in some older figure like Dumbledore. The insights that come from experience can help us along like nothing else. But learning just from our own experience is the hardest approach to life. A great mentor is a person who has filtered his or her own prior personal experience, along with the experience of many others, analyzed it fully, and extracted from it the wisdom it contains. We all need masterful moral mentors to show us the way forward, so that then we can go on to point others in the right direction as well. The strongest business organizations believe in developing leaders. And the wisest leaders themselves take their mentoring responsibili-ties seriously. No amount of succession planning can take the place of an ongoing culture of mentoring, which then ends up being a part of the best succession planning there can be. Our emblematic corporate touchstone, General Electric, has always been known for its strength of leadership training. Its top leaders are especially noteworthy, within the context of modern business, for being largely homegrown and internally groomed for greatness. They develop a distinctive form of leadership excellence, serve their company well, and then many eventually go on to take the helm at other major corporations, contin-uing to lead, and to develop leaders, in those new contexts. Corrupt leaders tend to hire corruptible people and then mold them into their image, to the long-term mutual detriment of all. The best leaders understand that greatness gives rise to greatness like nothing else can. Aristotle, as well as most other ancient philosophers, thought of a "virtue" as an individual human excellence-a personal characteristic that can facilitate the living of a worthwhile and suc-cessful life. Here is a quick list of the virtues according to Aristotle, and a very brief understanding of each: Leadership excellence arises from personal excellence. Dumbledore displays all these virtues, and in that way serves as a great role model for all his students and fellow faculty members. This is a large part of what makes it possible for him to be such an exemplary leader. Aristotle believed that a happy life is one lived in accordance with virtue-a life of excellence. This is exactly the sort of life Dumbledore lives every day. A truly great leader must first be a truly great person. Exemplary leadership over the long run, and across all dimensions of its results, is always the expression of a full and excel-lent life. Authentic leadership is the sort of outer function Page 2

3 that can spring only from the inner person. The great philosophers have always seen this. Building the inner person is vital to creating a great organization, strong community, or excellent business. Leadership is never just a set of actions or habits that can be equally effective regardless of the character and personal qualities of the leader. Aristotle believed that we are always in a process of becoming what we are capable of being. Life itself is a dynamic process. Whenever we make a decision, whenever we act or react, we are never just doing, we are always becoming. He some-times disappoints us, but occasionally he amazes us. Under the example and tutelage of Dumbledore, he has an opportunity to develop into something great. But, in order to appreciate that exciting fact more fully, we have to learn a bit more about who Dumbledore really is. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher. Page 3

4 Chapter 2 : If Harry Potter Ran General Elect by Aryn Lamos on Prezi Tom wrote "If Aristotle ran General Motors". It was an examination of how a philosopher's traits were similar to leaderhship traits. Tom then was going to write "If Aristotle ran Hogwarts", but realized that he felt Dumbledore and Aristotle had many similarities, and so he changed the idea for the book to "If Harry Potter ran GE". A few good points; a few things I seriously disagree with; despite the Harry Potter, I was bored. Leadership Wisdom from the World of the Wizards can be summed up as: To be a great leader, you must be an ethical person. This is a very valuable message, but it was articulated in a rambling way that left me bored halfway through the book, and not even the Harry Potter framework could relieve me from that. Tom Morris characterises an ethical person as virtuous and wise. By virtuous, he is referring to the Aristotelian virtues of courage, temperance, liberality, magnificence, pride, good temper, friendliness, truthfulness, wittiness, and justice. Thus, the Aristotelian virtuous person will commit to doing the right thing despite danger, strive to tell the truth, freely help others, behave well and moderately, and treat others sociably and fairly. They will be able to act with a sense of honour, a sense of humour, and on a grand scale p. I do appreciate that at least one of these virtues is a prime characteristic of the each of Hogwarts houses â Slytherin is proud, Gryffindor is courageous, Hufflepuff is friendly, and Ravenclaw is witty. He does not take the easy option of shaming Slytherin as evil or Hufflepuff as useless. Anyone can be virtuous. Wisdom is the ability to apply these virtues to the situations in front of you. The most important lesson of the book was the reflection on the Golden Rule as a means of testing whether an action is a moral one. More precisely, the moral test from J. He lists these steps as: Prepare for the challenge. Surround yourself with support. Engage in positive self-talk. First, to assume a self-confident attitude, secure yourself in the knowledge that you have worked hard in the lead-up and have all the skills and resources you require to take on the task. Second, develop a supportive and encouraging group of friends and colleagues to provide moral and practical support when you need it most. Finally, take action and do what needs to be done. The main point where I disagree with Morris and find his arguments lacking is in his characterisation of Albus Dumbledore as a great leader. The first chapter extols the virtues of Dumbledore, but downplays the occasions when he does not display these virtues. In addition to his friendship with notorious Dark wizard Gellert Grindewald in his youth, he took in incompetent Order members Mundungus Fletcher, whose flight at the beginning of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows results in the death of Alastor Moody, hired a series of incompetent professors Gilderoy Lockhart, Professor Binns, Sybil Trelawney and pathological bullies Severus Snape. This does not seem like the mark of a great man or a great leader. On the character of Severus Snape, I am firmly in agreement with Morris. He treats Harry, Hermione, Neville, and all the Gryffindor students with disdain, docking points arbitrarily and bullying from his position of power. This is so severe that in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the thing that frightens Neville most in the world is Professor Snape. Here I think the argument would have been well served by Morris waiting until after the publication in of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final book in the series. In this book, there are revelations about Snape, his motives a deep obsession with Lily Potter that he calls love, and his underlying loyalties that could be discussed at length. Whatever Snape is at his core, there seems to be plenty built up about that core that strikes us as morally despicable. One of them was a Slytherin [Severus Snape] and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew. However, this book does not fully capture the attention of the reader, and the arguments based on Harry Potter are often poorly made in the opinion of a die-hard Harry Potter fan and would have benefited from exposure to the final novel in the series. Page 4

5 Chapter 3 : Kim Lindsey: Book Review If Harry Potter Ran General Electric As I've watched Jeff Immelt, the CEO of GE over the years, I've been impressed that he has so many of Harry Potter's defining qualities. 12/05/ pm ET. Same with the Harry Potter book. Check out the photos provided. Doubleday, New York, One of the books contained a signed letter to Mr. All four books are First Printings either stated or with number lines to 1, or both. And now, checking out the condition of the books, I discover a second signed letter in the Harry Potter book. Both letters are funny and warm and witty. Morris, also known as Tom Morris born, is an American philosopher. He is also a business and motivational speaker, applying philosophical themes and concepts to business and professional life. Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing. Shipping and handling This item will ship to Germany, but the seller has not specified shipping options. Contact the seller- opens in a new window or tab and request a shipping method to your location. Shipping cost cannot be calculated. Please enter a valid ZIP Code. This item will be shipped through the Global Shipping Program and includes international tracking. Learn more- opens in a new window or tab Change country: There are 1 items available. Please enter a number less than or equal to 1. Select a valid country. Please enter 5 or 9 numbers for the ZIP Code. Page 5

6 Chapter 4 : If Harry Potter Ran General Electric HuffPost If Harry Potter Ran General Electric: Leadership Wisdom from the World of the Wizards out of 5 based on 0 ratings. 6 reviews. Tom Morris is one of the most active public philosophers in the world. Would he have any good suggestions about how you should run your life? After all, the most loved wizard of all time famously stood up to the most dangerous challenges of his day and prevailed magnificently. He must know something the rest of us could benefit from hearing. His exploits have been the inspiration of an entire generation, who sometimes even choose the colleges they will attend based on whose dining halls look most like Hogwarts. Goes With What It Knows: In fact, it was his sensibility, along with J. Leadership Lessons from the World of the Wizards. His friends sense something different about him. They know they can count on him. And they follow his lead even if it seems to mean risking everything to do so. General Electric, founded by the wizard Thomas Edison, has prospered over the years in many different ways, but has been challenged, of late, as most other companies, individuals, and families have, by our severe economic downturn. In their case, a financial division, GE Capital, had risen to an elite status within the company because some very smart people there were doing some deals that seemed magically productive. But GE historically has been mostly about making good things that people need. Jack Welch grew the company for years through acquisitions and other means. But when Jeff Immelt took over, he felt a pull right away back to the core business that has always driven the company -- making useful and helpful things. Early on, he began talking about eco-friendly business and practical nanotechnology, some of the most magical stuff on the planet. These five steps also allow him to make the changes that need to be made and lead others to do likewise. I see this in Jeff Immelt, and in other great C. I also see it in successful individuals generally. This is great advice for any of us. When facing a new challenge, first prepare. Then gather a team. Remind yourself of your abilities and preparation, building your own confidence for the challenge. Well grounded confidence is contagious. This is a key to business success and is equally of great value to life success. The most extraordinary people do it naturally. All of us can do it deliberately. Then, our enterprises flourish, whether that enterprise is writing novels about a young wizard, or steering a global company. And the results would be magical. Chapter 5 : If Harry Potter Ran General Electric: Leadership Wisdom from the World of the Wizards by Tom If Harry Potter ran General Electric: leadership wisdom from the world of the wizards. Title. Chapter 6 : If Harry Potter Ran General Electric by Tom Morris blog.quintoapp.com In IF HARRY POTTER RAN GENERAL ELECTRIC, bestselling business author Tom Morris (IF ARISTOTLE RAN GENERAL MOTORS) uncovers the values and timeless truths that underlie Rawling's hugely popular books and illuminate the lessons they offer to all of us in our careers and daily lives. Chapter 7 : Download [PDF] General Electric Review Free Online New Books in Politics If Harry Potter Ran General Electric: Leadership Wisdom from the World of the Wizards (Tom Morris) at blog.quintoapp.com However important the magic of wands, brooms, cauldrons, potions, and spells might be to the vivid story telling of [the Harry Potter] books, it is merely incidental to their philosophy of life. Chapter 8 : If Harry Potter Ran General Electric By Tom Morris - Free downloads and reviews - CNET blog However important the magic of wands, brooms, cauldrons, potions, and spells might be to the vivid story telling of [the Harry Potter] books, it is merely. Page 6

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