Over 200 people from the UK’s leading businesses met in London this morning to search for a new blueprint for doing better business in Great Britain. They were seeking to unite corporate purpose with personal values so that businesses better serve society. The conference explored the themes of the business need for change, the inevitability of a conflict between profit maximisation and developing common good, and the distinctive practical contribution of a faith based ethical framework to personal and corporate responsibility.
The conference was facilitated by the Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols.
“I think one of the most vivid images that we had this morning was that a duty of business is to contribute to the adhesiveness of a society ”“ to its ”˜glue’ is the phrase that we used ”“ because if a society doesn’t have some glue, then it’s bad for business,” Archbishop Nichols said. “Because it’s difficult to understand that society. It’s difficult to get to appreciate what its needs are and what therefore what business can creatively respond to.”
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Archbishop Nichols interviewed by Vatican Radio–Seeking an new way of doing business in the UK
Over 200 people from the UK’s leading businesses met in London this morning to search for a new blueprint for doing better business in Great Britain. They were seeking to unite corporate purpose with personal values so that businesses better serve society. The conference explored the themes of the business need for change, the inevitability of a conflict between profit maximisation and developing common good, and the distinctive practical contribution of a faith based ethical framework to personal and corporate responsibility.
The conference was facilitated by the Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols.
“I think one of the most vivid images that we had this morning was that a duty of business is to contribute to the adhesiveness of a society ”“ to its ”˜glue’ is the phrase that we used ”“ because if a society doesn’t have some glue, then it’s bad for business,” Archbishop Nichols said. “Because it’s difficult to understand that society. It’s difficult to get to appreciate what its needs are and what therefore what business can creatively respond to.”
Listen to it all (a little over 9 minutes).