As
I am working my way through We First,
I’ve noticed that while Mainwaring does a great job blowing the whistle on
corporations and illustrating why they need to change their ways, he has forgotten
to mention the bigger point: That our Me
First corporations are really a reflection of a Me First society.
Take
Black Friday for example. Every year we
hear stories of shoppers trampled to death, or people being tazered all in the
name of a good deal. An article by the
Huffington Post about shoppers stepping over the top of a man collapsed on the floor illustrates this perfectly.
And
we all remember the controversy last year where many stores were opening their
doors Thanksgiving night, robbing employees of precious time spent with their
families all for the sake of customers who wanted to shop after gorging themselves
on turkey.
Both
of these scenarios reflect our Me First, the-customer-is -aways-right values of
a door-mat service industry. How can we
expect CEO’s to practice We First values when we as individuals do not?
That is a very great point, Liz. Corporations would be unable to market to consumers without speaking their language. People often like to point the finger, but what they need to do is look inward and realize that, *gasp*, they are part of the issue as well.
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