Feeling under the gun lately? Trust me: You don’t know how many enemies you have. Critics of business write books, run organizations, publish magazines, and operate Websites that monitor the goings-on in Corporate America, and it’s not easy to keep track of it all.
And the critics are finding an audience-not just anarchists and hippies and college students but everyday folks who may even work in your factories and offices. Their trust in Corporate America has been battered…The critics speak for millions who are uncomfortable with much that Corporate America does.
All of this negativity may have caused you to ask yourself: What can we in business do to get the critics off our backs? Are we doing anything right? What do they want from us? To answer these questions, we went to the people who know: the critics themselves. Some of their answers may appear obvious, some not, but put them all together and they provide a “white paper” from the other side. You may not agree with its conclusions, but you can’t afford not to listen.
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participants include:
– Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club
– Chris Grimshaw of Corporate Watch, a U.K.-based research and publishing group
– Edward Fire, president of the International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, and Furniture Workers Division of the Communication Workers of America
– Charles Derber, author of Corporation Nation: How Corporations Are Taking Over Our Lives and What We Can Do About It:
– Hazel Henderson, author of Beyond Globalization: Shaping a Sustainable Global Economy
– Robert S. Browne, former director of the Black Economic Research Center and founder and president of the Twenty-First Century Foundation
– Joe Robinson, founder of the Work to Live Campaign and author of Work to Live: The Guide to Getting a Life
– John Passacantando, executive director of Greenpeace USA
– William Greider, author of One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism and Who Will Tell the People?: The Betrayal of American Democracy
– Victor Navasky, publisher and editorial director of The Nation
– John Cavanagh, director of the Institute for Policy Studies and author of Alternatives to Economic Globalization
– Tom Buffenbarger, international president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
– Thom Hartmann, author of Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights
– David Korten, author of When Corporations Rule the World and The Post-Corporate World
– Thomas H. Naylor, professor emeritus in Duke University’s Department of Economics and co-author of Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic
– Bill Shireman, chairman and CEO of the Global Futures Foundation and co-author of What I Learned in the Rainforest: Business Principles for the New Economy
– Stanley Aronowitz, author of From the Ashes of the Old: American Labor and America’s Future and How Class Works: Power and Social Movement
– Michael Parenti, author of Democracy for the Few