Zitat des Tages von Peter Senge:
Governments, especially democratic ones, are short-term and nationalistic.
The most universal challenge that we face is the transition from seeing our human institutions as machines to seeing them as embodiments of nature.
Business has a way of talking about how to create value, which is in some way isn't bad... We just need to start thinking about if the value we want to create is consistent with all social and environmental well being.
In our ordinary experiences with other people, we know that approaching each other in a machinelike way gets us into trouble.
One industrial age belief is that GDP or GNP is a measure of progress. I don't care if you're the President of China or the U.S., if your country doesn't grow, you're in trouble. But we all know that beyond a certain level of material need, further material acquisition doesn't make people happier.
A well-managed business will have a high return on invested capital. But that's a consequence. It's not a way to manage a business.
There's a lot of American kids think their food comes from the grocery store and the concept of seasonality has no meaning to them whatsoever.
Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective - at best.
If you are realistic about how our present society works, the economic clout - and a lot of the political clout, frankly - is in the business sector. And it's the locus of innovation.
