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Wisdom Leadership & Spirituality
March 1, 2006

Willis Harman — eminent futurist at the Stanford Research Institute and regent of the University of California — once pointed out the opportunity and responsibility that business leaders (at all levels) face in these stressful days of global communication, global economics, and global competition:

Leaders in world business are the first true planetary citizens. They have worldwide capability and responsibility; their domains transcend national boundaries. Their decisions affect not just economies, but societies; and not just direct concerns of business, but world problems of poverty, environment, and security. World business will be a key factor in the ultimate resolution of the macro-problem. It crosses national boundaries with much more ease than do political institutions and the business corporation is a far more flexible and adaptive organization than the bureaucratic structures of government. Up to now, there has been no guiding ethic… (but) such a new ethos for business may be in the process of forming.

The original publication can be found at this link.

Practice: Deliver

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