Posted on 03/05/2012 10:53:58 AM PST by mbarker12474
See the Facebook page for the Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY): https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150598087817799&set=a.10150165103967799.309139.200008567798&type=1&theater¬if_t=photo_reply
NNSY statement: AGREE OR DISAGREE--WHY/WHY NOT? Business should be treated as a HUMAN COMMUNITY?
NNSY picture post with a variation of this quote: "For a human community, profit is the consequence of being effective in pursuit of your purpose or mission. Or, is a company first and foremost a machine for making money, and the people and relationships among them is secondary, they are simply "human resources" needed by this machine.
It's not surprising that if we think in machine-like terms, we are going to be rather toxic to the larger living environment. But if we think of ourselves as a human community, a living system, then we are naturally concerned about our impact on the larger communities of which we are part. P. Senge"
And this picture:
The “Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY)(it’s in Portsmouth, VA) is a FIRST CLASS SHITHOLE! I did 3 “sentences” there(1981, 1982, 1983).
Why should anything about this be surprising in the era of Obama?
Peter Senge is a capitalist. He has developed influential theories on how business should organize and communicate. He teaches at MIT Sloan School of Management and has taught and influenced some of the finest business leaders in America.
No one has ever considered him a Marxist.
Read the quote. That didn’t come from the mouth of a capitalist.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Norfolk-Naval-Shipyard-NNSY/200008567798
Peter Senge, The Necessary Revolution: Working Together to Create a Sustainable World.Environmental wackoness and Social Justice...
Imagine a world in which the excess energy from one business would be used to heat another. Where buildings need less and less energy around the world, and where “regenerative” commercial buildings – ones that create more energy than they use – are being designed. A world in which environmentally sound products and processes would be more cost-effective than wasteful ones. A world in which corporations such as Costco, Nike, BP, and countless others are forming partnerships with environmental and social justice organizations to ensure better stewardship of the earth and better livelihoods in the developing world. Now, stop imagining – that world is already emerging.
Peter Senge is not a Marxist. Never was and never will be.
MIT Sloan is considered a conservative business school.
Considering his last book is all about Social Justice and Environmental Justice, I'd disagree.
We aren’t discussing Senge. We are discussing the NNSY’s use of Marxist language by Senge in a quote with a cute diversity-style cartoon on the Navy lab’s Facebook site.
Nevertheless, here is another quote by Senge:
“The impact of businesses is really unique. They cross more boundaries, they are more global than any national government. The major issues in the world—energy, climate change, food, water, materials waste and toxicity—these cross all boundaries and in many ways are the key interdependencies between developed and developing countries. And business fits right in the center of that web of interdependence.”
This quote comes from Senge’s interview with “A Buddhist Forum for Peace, Culture, and Education”
http://www.sgiquarterly.org/feature2006Oct-3.html
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