In The Corporate Monastery Charles I. Mundale Executive Director of MCCR Social problems in our metropolitan area are increasing at an alarming rate.
Families are in disarray across the entire socio-economic spectrum.
Middle-class people of all ethnic groups are fleeing to the suburbs or thinking about doing so, leaving our core cities with increasing poverty, deteriorating housing, rising crime and shrinking pride. Racial and gender prejudices and religious differences stoke the fires of hate and distrust. Interaction is reduced to a choice among denial, wary avoidance, brooding silence, and violent encounter. Meanwhile, we have witnessed the growth of a kind of corporate monasticism. This strategy is clearly at odds with the stakeholder view of business on which MCCR was founded.