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Implications for Executives,

Human Resources,

and Individuals

o, how do the seven principles and actions of
abundant organizations apply to business execu-
tives leading organizations, to human resource
professionals who work to institutionalize these
ideas, and to individuals who seek meaning
Sfrom the work they do?

Two Cases

Rodney Smith is the president of a small liberal arts university
in rural Virginia. The idyllic campus was purchased about
15 years ago from a failing finishing school for girls, with
the idea of creating a small Eastern mission-based univer-
sity for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints—Mormon kids who more typically head to church- or
state-run colleges in the West. Southern Virginia University
has grown slowly under its current business model, and it is

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