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So how would you answer this question: is business the problem behind, or the solution to, our collective ills?
As trust in social institutions continues to plummet, many people today are looking to business to provide meaning and purpose. Where else to turn, after all, when political institutions are gridlocked, education seems ineffective, and religion is, well, complicated? Business, at its best...
Read moreIf we look a little more closely, our heroes were as ordinary as we are. Rosa Parks was just trying to ride a bus; Lincoln was just trying to keep the Union together; Ford was just trying to build a cost-effective car for the masses; and Anthony was just trying to get the vote for half of the population. Are these aims so far out of the ordinary that we might think those reaching for them are somehow different from the rest of us?
Read moreEveryone seems to be concerned about “impact” these days, so much so that a tortuous new adverb has arisen: “impactful.” Politicians stump about it, consultants analyze it, researchers theorize about it, and visionaries call for transformations of it. Whether the impact in question is social, environmental, or collective, the primary concern driving the impact conversation is exactly the same one driving the geologists’ naming of the Anthropocene era: that human beings are having unprecedented, and not entirely positive, impact on our planet, and particularly on the quality of other humans’ lives.
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