Abstract
Reckless growth, growth for the creation of shareholder value, is increasingly questioned. Or at least, the consequences are. The oil prices are skyrocketing, not least due to an ever growing demand for oil, particularly from the emergent economies. We cannot decently criticise them since it is our economic model that has created the dream of unlimited growth. But that same drive for growth is going to cause the depression through its recklessness.
Some Tibetans believe our present world of war, disease, corrupt inequality and environmental desecration, is the self-destructive age of Kali, to be followed by a new age of peace, ethnic harmony, environmental balance, and human dignity, yet to come. This future is Shambhala, sometimes called Shangri-la.
(Laurence Brahm, 2006)
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Brahm, L. (2006) Searching for Shangri-la, Higher Education Press.
Draper, S., Hanson, L., and Uren, S. (2007) Hallmarks of Sustainable Performance, www.forumforthefuture.org.uk.
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Sathya Sai Baba: http://www.sathyasai.org/
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Baets, W., Oldenboom, E. (2009). Social Intrapreneurship for Sustainable Performance. In: Rethinking Growth. The Diversity, Leadership and Responsibility Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230235793_9
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