It may be unfashionable in Britain to stand for the national anthem, but two minutes watching the Last Night of the Proms, an annual music festival, on television will serve to dispel any doubts about the ability of certain sorts of music to instil collective purpose in a group of individuals.
A social policy expresses "ongoing strategies for structuring relationships and coordinating behaviour to achieve collective purposes...ways of exerting power, of getting people to do things that they might otherwise not do" [ 1].
It reported near-unanimous agreement that purpose drives organizational performance: 89% of executives reported a strong sense of collective purpose drives employee satisfaction; 84% stated it affects an organization's ability to transform; and 80% added it helps increase customer loyalty.
The concert is more than a cry of righteous outrage; it's an ideal vision of collective purpose, progress, and love.
The erosion of our soil accelerated, as did the erosion of our sense of connection to one another and our sense of collective purpose.
But his character makes a conscious choice and sacrifice in the interest of a collective purpose; Jennie is the beneficiary and victim of a cosmic accident (albeit one that the script explains scientifically), winning a sort of lottery for a long-sought miracle that turns out to be a poisoned prize.
The modern Orthodox are rooted in that deeper sense of collective purpose.
But the major factor is a natural antagonism between school-rooted institutions and the commercial art world, in which an individual's success distances her from the ranks of collective purpose.
But while their interest in computers was driven in part by personal ambition, I was struck, too, by the sense of collective purpose, even nationalism, they seemed to attach to the lessons they were taking.
