Just heard a fascinating discussion of the Barrow, AK Eskimo (Inuit)
villages who run the oil business as a corporation. The speaker talked of
the need/requirement of their "corporation" to be run with the values of
the people (taking care of the elders and the young children, teaching the
culture to all and the like) as the values of the corporation.

The bottom line, said he, is far more than simply the making of money.

I was struck by his view that their happy people are sharing people and
that taking control of the environment and its riches also meant taking
care of the people through which the corporation/making money/using the
resources was done differently than the usual make money at all costs
mentality that afflicts so many corporations and organizations.

How many of us have not wondered at times where the "heart" went of a
particular institution, organization, corporation?

While it is appropriate to consider how to pay one's expenses, this is
somewhat different from forgetting that to do so, one must also stay in
touch with the heart of the matter: the reason for the work of the
organization in the first place.




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brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."
Kathleen G. Auerbach,PhD, IBCLC (Homewood, IL)- [log in to unmask]
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