CEO’s Corner

“The common good is best secured by the pursuit of private interest.” This is an article of capitalist faith. Trust the Unseen Hand; it will provide. Yet: polluted air in Los Angeles, fouled lakes in northern Minnesota, eroded fields in southern Minnesota, flooded tunnels in Chicago, and exploding sewers in Guadalajara are convincing—and geographically diverse enough to be general—evidence that this bedrock belief of history’s most productive economic system “ain’t necessarily so.”

“Cultural diversity” has become a fashionable buzz word, but our challenge as business leaders is to remove it from that semantic holding pattern and integrate it into our business strategy.