By László Zsolnai
ISBN-10: 3319116762
ISBN-13: 9783319116761
ISBN-10: 3319116770
ISBN-13: 9783319116778
This booklet discloses the religious size in enterprise ethics and sustainability administration. Spirituality is known as a multiform look for which means which connects individuals with all dwelling beings and God or final truth. during this feel, spirituality is an important resource in social and fiscal lifestyles. the amount examines the religious orientations to nature and company in several cultural traditions: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Sufism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism. It experiences how spirituality and ecology can give a contribution to reworking modern administration idea and praxis. It discusses new management roles and company versions that emerge for sustainability in enterprise and exhibits how entrepreneurship should be encouraged by means of nature and spirituality in a significant way.
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The Spiritual Dimension of Business Ethics and Sustainability Management
This booklet discloses the religious size in enterprise ethics and sustainability administration. Spirituality is known as a multiform look for which means which connects individuals with all dwelling beings and God or final truth. during this experience, spirituality is a crucial resource in social and financial existence.
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In his seminal book The forgotten half of change—achieving greater creativity through changes in perception, author Luc de Brabandere, Europe’s best-selling author on business innovation and a partner in the Boston Consulting Group, explains the difference between innovation and creativity (Brabandere 2005). Changing reality is innovation. This requires action by a team, is continuous, takes a long time, and delivers something new to the system. Its impact is measurable and certain and it requires the use of tools and project management.
It is always the same step, but you have to take it”. 23) Gobillot then argues that… I can’t help but think that the ultimate leadership challenge is not the erosion of the powers and tools thrust upon us by a turbulent environment. The ultimate challenge for any of us is the ability to take Saint-Exupéry’s first step. We cannot second-guess the future. There is no point looking for a truth that will answer all our concerns. It is not out there. Our job as leaders is to take the first step, without trying to second-guess or fearing what might lie ahead.
Hence, the need to elaborate a sustainable economic program that is able to tackle problems using a broader perspective. Those who seek to elaborate a sustainable economic paradigm to rival the dominant paradigm will also have to develop the core or basic assumptions of that sustainable paradigm in order to solve the socio-environmental crisis in an optimal way. Accordingly, we have to situate SM theories in a wider context and to evaluate 30 H. Opdebeeck existing SM theories by comparing them with other theories that also address how to solve sustainability problems.