Leading for Innovation: And Organizing for Results

5.2. The View from Business

Recently, we have undertaken a parallel study of business. For this branch of the project, we interviewed two groups of people: individuals nominated, by academics and peers in the business domain, for their entrepreneurial achievements and social responsibility; and individuals selected on the basis of their accomplished reputation in business but not known one way or another for their social responsibility. Most of the individuals we interviewed impressed us as good workers in the sense described previously: both proficient and ethical. Some have created new companies, whereas others have implemented successful changes to already existing organizations. In the aggregate, they see their work as a welcome challenge, ...