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Ghandi, Business Values, and Green IT
I attended (and spoke at) the Eleventh Annual Symposium on Spirituality and Business yesterday. I am not a religious person. But it was a great opportunity to step back and reflect. The highlight of the day was listening to Kevin Lynch, Executive Director of Rebuild Resources. He reminds himself daily of all of the advantages that he was born with that he has not earned. That he has suffered from drug and alcohol addiction, like those he serves. The people Kevin works with are not clients, but fellow human beings.
This is the concept of the servant leader that I spoke of earlier in the day. My speech was called: Satyagraha for the Business Leader:
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Before I met Laury Hammel, I had many heros. People like Wangari Maathi, Mohammed Yunus, Mother Teresa (yes, I know they’re all Nobel Peace Prize winners.) Not that I was friends with these people. In fact, I have never met any of them personally.
When I first met Laury, it didn’t occur to me that he would become one of my heros. I thought he was more of a character, a rebel, and an idealist. He showed up at meetings dressed in gym clothes, even when they were held in formal settings. He would say injudicious things. Like the time he clashed with someone over a green justice issue before he had really made the connection between the problems of the inner city and the degradation of our environment. And I thought he talked too much at our Sustainable Business Network board meetings.
But, I was wrong. Laury did not talk enough. So it took some time for me to learn that there are hundreds–no, thousands–of people whose lives he has enriched. Read the rest of this entry »