[Ailist] What is the Life Force (Vital energy/ Prana) of Business?

[Lionel Boxer]

Money is the life force of business.  One may argue this, but if you dig
deeply, if it is anything other than money then the organisation is
something other than a business, which is perhaps directs to a more
important question.  That is, what should a business be for it to best
serve humanity and the ecology, which is what John Elkington's triple
bottom line / sustainability is all about.

I explored this a bit without the aid of AI in my PhD using another
social constructionist theory, Positioning Theory.  See
http://intergon.net/phd

Triple bottom line is one thing, but traditional business is about
money.  However, it appears that everything in business is reduced to
money.  Even when we start dealing with the ecology, we reduce it to
cabon trading, which in my opinion is a severe cop-out.

Lionel Boxer CD PhD MBA BTech(IndEng) - 0411267256
Associate of RMIT University - lionel.boxer at rmit.edu.au
Graduate School of Business
my "Assessment of Quality Systems with Positioning Theory" 
now in a googe book - see link at http://intergon.net
>>> "Sachin Chavan" <mail at sachinchavan.com> 10/11/09 2:37 AM >>>
Money/profits? It is more akin to blood of business (transfer
mechanism). Products and services? But they change. Employees and other
stakeholders? They sound like organs/parts. What makes all these alive?
Mission/purpose? It is closer to its Dharma.
 
So then, what is the Prana (life force) of business? What keeps it
going? What heals it? What enriches it?
  
Regards,
Sachin
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