Thoughts for the day by Charles Handy on the toll laying people off can take on an employer, how organizations should be more invested in their customers and clients, and how planting trees is an example of the commitments people make to the well-being of future generations. Handy begins the thought discussing how he was forced to close a factory that had been losing money for two years, and how it makes sense to let others go in the business so that others might live. He proceeds to note that he, through the influence of God, did all he could to inspire the terminated workers to discover new talents and live on in spite of the factory closing. Handy then discusses how organizations are some of the best places to work as long as they are being busy for someone else, rather than their own interests, and how the healthiest organizations are those which exist for others. He argues that organizations could do with more loving, more forgiveness, and more faith in other people. Handy then reflects on the sensation of planting a walnut tree, and how it made him feel good to know he was giving something to future generations. He then observes how the most prosperous business organizations are always concerned for the future and “think beyond the grave,” and connects this concern for posterity to the true meaning of Christianity and the proper purpose and practice of great politicians.
Handy, Charles B Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo Bible Christianity Politicians Walnut tree
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Thoughts for the day by Charles Handy on the toll laying people off can take on an employer, how organizations should be more invested in its customers and clients, and how planting trees is an example of the commitments people make to the well-being of future generations; Charles Handy Papers; Box 18, Folder 16; 6 pages
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