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...guesses authorities who are accountable, however inadequately, we may find ourselves ill-prepared to meet the huge challenges posed by globalization. "In periods of great economic and technological change, trust can reduce the political, social, economic and emotional friction that often locks systems and organizations solid," says John Elkington, founder of a nongovernmental organization called SustainAbility that focuses on corporate responsibility and sustainable development. Even NGOs are affected, Elkington notes. Groups such as Greenpeace and Amnesty International have led the attack against companies and governments, and a WEF poll shows that NGOs today are the organizations most trusted...
...Henry was a compulsive innovator, although not a particularly good manager. Bill inherited the independent mind and high expectations of his great-grandfather. As a student at Princeton, he wrote a senior thesis titled "Henry Ford and Labor: A Reappraisal." Today the culture needs a lot more of its founder's inexhaustible curiosity than it does its later devotion to spreadsheets. "Bill is the first Ford since Henry Ford to have the ability to operate mentally with no boxes," says Douglas Brinkley, a historian who wrote Wheels for the World, about Ford Motor. "He is wide open to possibilities...
...Bill Ford, great-grandson of the auto company's founder, take on this responsibility when he could have left it to hired professionals? It helps to understand that he is a man of epic contradictions. His family practically invented the auto industry, not to mention blue-collar consumerism. Brilliant, cantankerous Henry Ford made the first mass-produced car, the Model T, and paid workers enough so they could afford to buy one. That makes great-grandson Bill industrial royalty: he comes from a competitive, dynastic clan that cannot be separated from the nameplate on your Mustang. But he also...
...distrusts authorities that are accountable, however inadequately, we may find ourselves ill prepared to meet the huge challenges posed by globalization. "In periods of great economic and technological change, trust can reduce the political, social, economic and emotional friction that often locks systems and organizations solid," says John Elkington, founder of a nongovernmental organization (NGO) called Sustain Ability that focuses on corporate responsibility and sustainable development. NGOs such as Greenpeace and Amnesty International have led the attack against companies and governments, and the World Economic Forum poll shows that NGOs today are the organizations most trusted by the public...
...Clark has to get off one or the other of the boards right now,” Nell Minow, co-founder of the corporate governance research firm Corporate Library, told The New York Times on Dec. 4, 2005. “It can’t happen fast enough...