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Article: Alternative leadership: the Rhineland philosophy.(Leadership for Sustainable Futures: Achieving Success in a Competitive World)(book)(Book Review)
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- June 1, 2005
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The latest book by Professor Gayle Avery of the Macquarie School of Graduate Management is another challenge to the basic philosophy on which the Anglo/US way of doing business rests: short-term perspectives, shareholder value over the needs of other stakeholders, production at the expense of the environment and society, ignoring future generations, and not valuing people.
Eminent economists have long pointed out that, while it has appeared to deliver affluence, this model is flawed and contains the seeds of its own destruction. Yet it still dominates the thinking in business schools, the media and the corporate world in many English-speaking countries. Is this ...