gentlegiant
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Comment · 13 years ago
Comment · 13 years ago
I think the article does a pretty good job of elucidating why the traditional view that a manager's job is to generate the maximum profit for shareholders (narrow view or the Milton Friedman mantra) no longer works - yet the contemporary holy grail as taught in management schools that advancing a broad range of stakeholder interests and also pursuing corporate social responsibility agenda (broad view) does seem to work.
Comment · 13 years ago
Are you thinking of capital gain? That's not profit per se.
Comment · 13 years ago
I was also averse to Bill Gates and his slide rule.
There's a whole warm and fuzzy area missing from his vision, just like his book The Road Ahead had him standing on an asphalt road.
When children aren't terrorised at home by their own stressed out parents, then we have a chance at raising an enlightened generation.
How to measure that?
In the talk he discusses how the most likely scenario relative to 1984 is that people will come to "love their servitude".
Well worth a listen.