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BUSINESS BASICS
The science of management is making connections. This is true for written words and conversations. Also managers are supposed to making connections all the time and not just vis-a-vis. "....a theory is a map that puts each dot and line into the right place and makes a connected and sensible picture out of it all...." (1). Business: In Swedish, the oldest term for business is naringslivert, literally meaning nourishment for life. The ancient Chinese characters define it thus: the first character means life or live. It can also be translated as "survive or birth". The second part of the character is translated as "meaning". Company: Company is the same root word as companion. It means "the sharing of bread." Also Woodrow Wilson's (1856-1924) speech in 1912 states the following: (87) "....Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for "daily bread". No one can worship God or love his neighbour on an empty stomach....." (2) In business difficult issues and discussion are faced and its a person's ability not always to "kill people with kindness" but to say how they are feeling and what they really want to express that develops a person but also the samurai warriors called this "Bushido" which is a rigid code of ethics for themselves. This guideline should be in place regarding your own ethics which is a basic part of the human character or should be as well as for the business world. I would refer a person to the entitled The Code of The Executive: 43 Ancient Samurai Principles(3) for further information. The reason is because when the business basics are missing due to internal politics it destroy's any good intentions of the organisation. Solutions to this is called decision-making and in society its not given a priority in neither business nor from the individual. So when people ask me: What came first the chicken or the egg? My answer has always been: neither for where's the Rooster. REFERENCES SOURCES: (1) Atom by Isaac Asimov. (page 12) (2) A Dictionary of Business Quotations by Simon James and Robert Parker (1990), published by Routledge London, (page 26). (3) The Code of The Executive: 43 Ancient Samurai Principles by Don Schmincke, published by Penguin Putnam. WEB ARTICLES:
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