ABSTRACT
Reconnecting the human chain means integrating across quantitative and qualitative, scientific and humanistic, empirical and spiritual realities, and human into nature, along with many other splits that have occurred over the years. In a sense, reconnection involves a spiritual journey in which we recognize our oneness with others, self, and perhaps whatever people might call a greater power in our universe. Reconnecting the human chain and reintegrating humans and their organizations with nature is the task we have at hand. It requires reimagining and rethinking our beliefs, attitudes and relationships. One final value seems to us to be important as part of the foundation for ecologizing narratives that help repair the broken human chain, that of collective value. Businesses are perhaps the world’s most important institutions today, yet for the most part their purpose is restricted (in most people’s understanding) to the neoliberal maxim of maximizing shareholder wealth or (financial) profits.
