Top of the Page It can range from an anonymous symbolic gesture to being a joint venture partner. The more you do so, the more effective the gift. Ideally you should create a plan and evaluate its progress. Defining this is the first and most fundamental step upon which all else is built. It is deeply personal and one which we each must explore.
Businesses are, in reality, quasi-religious sects.
When you go to work in one, you embrace A New Faith. And if they are really big businesses, you progress from faith to a kind of mystique. Belief in the product, preaching the product, in the end the product becomes the focus of a transcendental experience. Through 'the product' one communes with the vast forces of life, nature, and history that are expressed in business. Religion is defined here as that which infuses one's life with meaning.