One of those things you realize that they should be invented much before...
Awesome!
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The second video is a real prod at South Africa's Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang...she advocated the eating of beetroot and garlic as a cure for AIDS.
Honestly, before I read this text, I never thought of the connection between faith and CSR, regardless of how logical it is... This text I found in the BSR.org`s "Leading Perspective", which is a quarterly publication. Very very interesting...
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Many in the corporate world would rather not bring religion into the boardroom. Fair enough, especially if the purpose is to misuse religion for selfish or inappropriate purposes. But if advocates of CSR are interested in finding new allies in the quest to encourage businesses to become more ethical and attentive to their responsibilities to a wide range of stakeholders, they should think anew about the role of faith in the workplace.
There are many reasons that leaders interested in CSR might reconsider the role of faith and business. First, if we look carefully at the so-called “big five” — the five main religious traditions and their offshoots (the three Abrahamic faiths of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and Hinduism and Buddhism) — we quickly discover that each of these traditions and their holy teachings are very interested in the material world and how one takes care of it. Advocates of CSR might be pleasantly surprised to find that, for example, classic Jewish and Christian teachings accentuate a responsible tending of the garden (i.e. environmentalism), the decent treatment of workers (i.e. human rights) and attention
to the nature and purpose of work (i.e. goals other than maximization of shareholder returns).
Second, many adherents of these great traditions consciously or subconsciously ground their ethics — their understanding of right and wrong, good and evil, and beauty and falsehood — and their sense of life purpose in the teachings of their faith. If much of CSR is about going beyond the customs and dynamics of the marketplace, might not faith be a helpful resource to help business leaders and organizations think afresh about their duties to the broader community in which they live and work?
Finally, faith brings a different kind of vision. When one accepts the existence of a transcendent being or higher power, the result is that believers see the world differently. One sees beyond the immediate problem or pressure to meet quarterly returns. One’s sense of time is much more long term or, as theologians would say, eschatological, thinking of the eternal value of one’s work and how one does it. God is interested in what we do and how we do it; God values us doing creative, excellent work. But surely God is also interested in more than just earnings per share.
Of course, intentionally engaging the resources of faith to help business consider its wider responsibilities also brings certain risks that too often seem to accompany religion. Among these questions: What about different views, teachings and historic friction between different traditions? Can these be overcome? Is there more common ground than we think, and if so, how can that be tapped into and used in a business setting? Can faith help organizations rethink such important moral questions facing business today, such as economic development, sustainability, corruption, education and treatment of employees?
As I continue to study and conduct research into these questions, I conclude that faith is indeed a viable and valuable force that ought to be recognized as a legitimate resource for business leaders to draw upon. And while not without its challenges, I believe there are appropriate and respectful ways to draw on one’s faith in a pluralistic marketplace. Authentic faith might be precisely the new dimension needed for tomorrow’s global corporate leaders to succeed responsibly.
David W. Miller, Ph.D. is a former senior executive in international finance and partner in an investment banking firm. He now heads the Yale Center for Faith & Culture and teaches Business Ethics at Yale Divinity School and Yale School of Management, and advises CEOs on questions of values, ethics and faith in the workplace.
hahaha, check this out! One of the oldest and biggest newspapers of Serbia...
Text is about US getting ready to possibly attack North Korea... I didn`t even read it because when I saw the picture I thought it`s not worth... The picture is supposed to represent the control screen of Tomahawk rocket... Oh my god!!!!
Very interesting Tag Cloud made by Chirag Mehta - it`s made out of 360 documents (1776-2006). You can even use the slider to change timeframe... pretty cool because you can see how US politics changed over time...
Picture and links are found at Svakodnevnica blog which I reccomend to all Serbian speakers...
cross-posted from nomadlife.org.
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2 days before the US elections, although the two are obviously unconnected and only a crazed conspiracy theorist would suggest otherwise.....
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The Iraqi High Tribunal on Sunday sentenced a combative Saddam Hussein and two other defendants to death by hanging for a brutal crackdown in 1982 in the Shiite town of Dujail.....(link)
There is an automatic appeal process for the death sentence, and he still has other trials to face, so it will be a while before the sentence is carried out.....perhaps sometime in October 2008?
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My comment:
heh, in my country they start big projects before the elections... or raise salaries, start building new roads etc...
and we hate them for that... jeez, just realized how underdeveloped nation we are...
Born in 1893 as a member of the Royal Family of Karadjordjevic, he took over the regency in 1934, after the assasination of King Alexander in Marseille. Pavle ruled until March 1941 when something unimaginable happened - on March 25th in Vienna he signed a Tripartite Pact and joined Germany, Italy and Japan in Axis Powers!!!
Because of his decision, massive demonstrations happened in Belgrade and 2 days after his cousin Peter II Karadjordjevic overthrew his government and took over. 10 deys after, unsatsified Axis Powers, led by Germany, bombed Belgrade and invaded Yugoslavia.
Royal family left the country and Prince Paul was kept in house arrest by British in South Africa, until the end of the war. He died in Paris on September 11, 1976, without ever coming back to Yugoslavia.
Noone ever managed to unveil the secret of his decision to join the tripartite pact... However, by his last will his complete archive was given to Columbia University, but not to be opened until after 50 years of his death.
Anyways, some important historians pressured his only daughter, Jelisaveta (which is the only one with rights to break the 50 years veto) and she finally agreed to break it and gave them rights to open the archive.
So, microfilms are on their way to Belgrade and I`m looking forward to know the truth about what happened back then... And why he made a decision that simply destroyed all good that his family did for our people in the history.. and made me hate them all...
Some say that he was forced to do it because British (his family was close to the UK at that time) betrayed him and he wanted to save the people... Some say that he was an evil man anyways and that he actually wanted to do it... Some say that he was simply stupid because he believed Germany that Yugoslavia will remain independent (in addition, he was strongly against communism) etc...
Well, I guess we`ll know really soon... As a big history lover, am not just looking forward... Am freaking excited!!
...just an inspiring text that reminds you about things...
I got it in Serbian and am translating it using all my english skills :)
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Old age is like a bank account. You gain from it what you invested. My advice is to invest lots of happiness in the bank of memories!
Thank you for your part in my bank of memories. I`m still investing!
Remember 5 simple rules for happiness:
1. Free your mind of hate.
2. Free your mind of concerns.
3. Live a simple life.
4. Give more.
5. Expect less.
I`m not forwarding this expecting "some miracle" tomorrow, nor to complete the "7 people goal". My aim is that each and every one of you realize this very second just how happy you are. If I achieved this, then I don`t have to wait for tomorrow... A miracle happened already...
Real happiness is in small things - we just have to reach them and put them in the right place.
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Starost je kao bankovni racun. Sa njega podizete ono sto ste tu ulozili. Moj savet vam je da ulozite mnogo srece u banku secanja!
Hvala vam za vas deo u banci secanja. Ja još uvek ulazem!!
Zapamtite pet jednostavnih pravila za srecu:
1. Oslobodite svoje srce mrznje.
2. Oslobodite svoj um od briga.
3. zivite jednostavno.
4. Pruzajte vise.
5. Ocekujte manje.
Ne prosledjujem vam ovo da bi mi se desilo "neko cudo" sutra, niti da bih ispunio cifru od 7 ljudi. Namera mi je da svako od vas, ove sekunde pomisli koliko je zaista sretan. Ako sam to uspeo, onda ne moram da cekam sutra... Desilo se cudo...
Sreca je u malim stvarima, treba samo da pruzimo ruku i postavimo ih na pravo mesto....
