Outline of Speech
We live in a spiritually void business world.
Business corruption reaches into the heart of the world’s largest trading center.
There must be more than the satisfaction of individual greed at the sacrifice of others if businesses are to succeed.
Businesses are one of society’s highest forms of human achievement.
Businesses must have people.
People make up the business.
It is the people who make or break the organization.
It is the people who create, produce, ship, purchase and use the product or service that businesses provide.
The entire activity revolving around business is a web of relationships.
We have lost our values and our values come from our codes of conduct, our moral character, and our moral character comes from our culture.
Our culture has become spiritless, as if we were all addicted to wealth, money and power, short term thinking at it’s worst.
Addiction is like death.
People in our organizations have been de-motivated, tuned out, numbed down.
Spirits have been crushed by a western management style that stifles creativity, forsakes the individual, and the community.
Tomorrow’s organizations can be spiritual, learning organizations.
We can have living healthy organizations with honest people working together in a spirit of cooperation not competition.
Business and spirituality can go hand in hand.