As a consequence Business Ethics in the economy hangs on a thin thread, and that thread is the psyche of managers.
Our materialistic world is in a dead-end street. Self-centered isolationism is destined to be no more than a footnote in the history of the development of humanity. There is an urgent need for change. The following quote from John Steinbeck is as relevant today as when it was first uttered:
It has always seemed strange to me … the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest: sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egoism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of ...
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