SO MUCH of what is being written about business and management is written for a small minority - managers, aspiring managers, and entrepreneurs. Business never exists in a vacuum. People have to want those products or services enough to buy them. Likewise, managers wouldn't be managers without people to manage. In both cases, the continued existence and the well-being of business and management rely on the participation of you and me.
Business is the real ballot-box of the world, and the campaigning never stops.
This has been a summer for a vegetable garden, calling on my physical labors in a way quite different from the mental labors my business requires. On hands and knees, pulling weeds from among the young cabbages provides a counterpoint to weeding ideas and words grown thick from study. Serious, very serious, always serious. Dressed in the stiffness of suit and tie, inhabiting the large, intimidating corner office, great slab of the executive desk the size of a football field. There's a pervasive, inhuman grayness - lacking in warmth, driven only by a bottom line, to accumulate and control dollars, property, lives.