What Do You Really Stand For?
The One Question That Will Transform Your Work and Life
Will be published approx. on 21. April 2026
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-64782-765-6 (ISBN)
Description
A practical, research-based guide for maximizing the most overlooked driver of lasting success and fulfillment: our values.
What if one simple shift could make you feel as satisfied as getting an $84,000 raise?
Research shows that understanding your core values-and living by them-can deliver just that.
This is the power of values.
In What Do You Really Stand For? Columbia Business School professor Paul Ingram reveals how clarifying your values can transform your choices, relationships, and leadership. With engaging stories, practical tools, and over two decades of research, Ingram shows that values aren't just a moral compass-they're an advantage that can boost our performance and well-being.
Whether you're navigating a career decision or navigating conflicts, heading a team or heading an organization, or simply trying to live and lead with greater purpose, What Do You Really Stand For? offers a powerful framework to take more-intentional control-and lead ourselves and others with more clarity, confidence, and purpose.
What if one simple shift could make you feel as satisfied as getting an $84,000 raise?
Research shows that understanding your core values-and living by them-can deliver just that.
This is the power of values.
In What Do You Really Stand For? Columbia Business School professor Paul Ingram reveals how clarifying your values can transform your choices, relationships, and leadership. With engaging stories, practical tools, and over two decades of research, Ingram shows that values aren't just a moral compass-they're an advantage that can boost our performance and well-being.
Whether you're navigating a career decision or navigating conflicts, heading a team or heading an organization, or simply trying to live and lead with greater purpose, What Do You Really Stand For? offers a powerful framework to take more-intentional control-and lead ourselves and others with more clarity, confidence, and purpose.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Cloth over boards
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Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
434 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64782-765-6 (9781647827656)
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E-Book
04/2026
Harvard Business Review Press
€30.99
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Person
Paul Ingram is the Kravis Professor of Business at the Columbia Business School. He has received Columbia's highest recognition for teaching, the Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching, as well as the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence, and thirteen teaching awards voted by graduating students at Columbia and Cornell Universities. His research has been published in more than one hundred articles, book chapters, and books.