An example of anti-sustainability

Here is another tangent related tp my sustainability post from earlier today.

One of my concerns with the current corporate model is that it encourages behaviors that are - in my humble opinion - counterproductive. I'll understand if you scoff at my use of that term, because corporations are OBVIOUSLY productive. They are the backbone of our economy! They produce goods, services, and jobs. But they also actively encourage behaviors that I consider to be just plain bad for adults.

I bring this up because I just read Christine Kane's blog post from yesterday. The first two paragraphs include a story about her encounter with a confused salesman from a national corporation. He had questions after her presentation at a local because she talked about the idea of trust - and that was different from anything he knew about sales. In my world, good business is sustainable business. Instilling fear and distrust in clients is not sustainable.

Business as a competitive "us/them" single sale event is so 20th century! It eats up the good in people at an unsustainable rate - and that is one resource that I believe that we can't do without. I suspect that it will slowly change of its own accord, as more people experience trust based, collabarative business. But if it doesn't, I have no qualms about helping it do so - in a very friendly and non-competitive manner, of course. After all, if I'm right, collaborating to make the corporate model more sustainable could be the consulting gig of a lifetime!