Article by Charles Handy exploring the breakdown of impersonal, large organizations into smaller, more intimate and connected businesses, and the lessons learned from Enron. Handy begins the article discussing how vulnerable large organizations have become in recent years, despite advances in information systems, to unforeseen, outside competitors. Handy proceeds to highlight the Enron scandal as an example of how businesses fail when they make money their only purpose, and how capitalism is not and should not be just about profit. He argues that, because businesses comprise the major lever of progress in the modern world, they must be working ultimately for the good of all. In this respect, Handy encourages businesses to reexamine why they exist, and what they believe to be their values, in order to prevent capitalism's failure.
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Article by Charles Handy exploring the breakdown of impersonal, large organizations into smaller, more intimate and connected businesses, and the lessons learned from Enron, 2003; Charles Handy Papers; Box 15, Folder 9; 2003
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