ABSTRACT
The poem and the experiences that provoked it evoke the image of failure to provide a skin to hold in vital organs of human society in the way finance is managed. This suggests a dynamic in which emotional energies have colluded to deny aspects of financial institutions for which the banks are now vilified as much as people feel they have been vilified by them. Central to moral leadership is the idea that business and financial professionals need to access and understand the primitive emotions of themselves and others. Professor Susan Long has produced an analysis of the destructive capacity of organisations to exploit the humane and socially respectful aspect of their workforce, their client base, and their stakeholders. Multi-national enterprises continue to use more energy than is required for production and re-investment, thereby producing profits for distribution to management and shareholders as a pay-back for the risk they have taken in making their investments.
