The Subject is Sustainability...visionary thinking...new ways of doing business
I'll be interviewed tonight at 6 pm Pacific time; http://www.universallearningseries.com/
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Some of the issues we'll be exploring are:
· why is sustainability so important to our survival?
· what are some exaples of visionary leadership?
· what is triple bottom line thinking?
· how does it literally "pay to be good?"
· what suggestions do you have for small businesses?
· how can you instigate "original thinking" in the workplace?
Interview based on The Art of Original Thinking-The Making of a Thought Leader
Excerpts:
To protect the planet or the poor, we must begin to say--convincingly and collectively--that
corporations can profit as they wish, but not at the expense of the environment, of human rights, and of the communities in which they do business. This is not a revolution against corporate tyranny, as was the Boston Tea Party. This is an evolution for corporate consciousness, and it will lead to higher profitability and more goodwill because it is the
right action for this time, and we, as a people, reward actions that hearten us. And we all want to engage in lives and work experiences that are heartening as well.
This is the potential of corporate America--to re-think their structures and processes in such a way that they become furnaces of inspiration, centers of creative ingenuity, arbiters of a culture conscious enough to bring the whole human family into the picture. The profits from such an endeavor--materially, culturally, spiritually--could overwhelm the most skeptic imagination.
Thought leaders do not think in terms of "me" and "mine." They
think in terms of "we" and "ours." They do not think outside the box,
they live outside the box. No matter what their address, they think of
themselves as global citizens, responsible to the earth, responsible to the
human family, and aware that their well-being is tied to the well-being of
others. They are balanced and in tune with their own inner life, and they
are awake to the immense possibilities that erupt when the inner lives
and imaginations of their colleagues are fully engaged.