Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I have always been a business person.
I believe businesses don't grow or develop in terms of a blueprint. There is a huge element of opportunism involved.
For years and years, people would say, 'The business is changing.' And I would say, 'The business is not changing. It's exactly the same as it was in the '70s, the '80s and the '90s.' But all of a sudden, the business changed, and it really did change.
Big business increasingly likes to portray itself as socially concerned, adopting the style of civic action through 'campaigns' of varying degrees of cynicism.
I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done.
When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.
Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don'ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.
The business has changed greatly since my day.
I had very little exposure to business growing up. I also was very focused on the Civil Rights Movement. And I saw law as a vehicle to really bring about substantial change.
Like leaders in many walks of life, my business has been to serve with, and for, others.