Fixing the Game

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A BOLD VISION FOR COMPANIES AND EXECUTIVES

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.

—Margaret Mead

In his best-selling novel Bonfire of the Vanities, novelist Tom Wolfe paints a touching but disturbing picture of his hero—or perhaps more properly antihero—Sherman McCoy. Sherman is a millionaire bond trader, a Manhattan Master of the Universe. A blue-blooded, thirty-eight-year old Yale graduate, he already has a co-op flat on Park Avenue with twelve-foot ceilings, a socialite wife named Judy, a perfect six-year-old daughter named Campbell, and a mistress named Maria.

Wolfe writes that one day, Campbell runs up to Sherman and earnestly asks: “Daddy . ...