The Value Imperative is about understanding and creating value to become more prosperous, otain higher levels of success as a business and as a person, and become a better executive, manager, and leader.

The book describes value and its creation, a practitioner concept that encompasses all aspects of human endeavor and happiness and covers different aspects of value, and how they impact you, business, society, technology, innovation and creativity, and education. The book demonstrates how to identify where value exists, how it can be increased, how it is destroyed and dissipated, and how it can re-emerge. The author also describes the 6As required of successful executives.