Sublime

Hierarchies serve an important function. They enable complete strangers to know how to treat one another without wasting the time and energy needed to become personally acquainted.

Remember the idea of well-rounded, T-shaped people that is so intrinsic to IDEO’s strategy for hiring and professional development? Maybe for you, your personas can be the bar of your

People matter most—more than equipment, investors, inventions, momentum, or X’s and O’s. People are at the heart of achieving organizational greatness.

— be successful by creating value for others.

Wise leaders use their personal ethics to effectively manage the tension between corporate values and corporate profits.

If these arguments are right, then a wiser society is one where such methods and habits are ubiquitous, rather than one ruled by a council of elders. They also point to a more fundamental observation—that what really makes societies tick, now and in the future, is not just the surface facts of GDP, institutions or law, though these are important. I

As Peter Drucker said, “In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important event historians will see is not technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce. It is an unprecedented change in the human condition. For the first time—literally—substantial and rapidly grow