ABSTRACT
Many people in business select their field of work on the basis of expediency and promised return, ignoring their personal vocation if it does not fit in with the demands of their job. This chapter describes how the filters on perceptions—the machine model, dualism, individualism, and ethical expediency—have centuries of history behind them. As Alfred North Whitehead said, the business mind dominates society, and it is most important for us, as businesspeople, to rethink our basic models and assumptions. Like James W. Kuhn at Columbia, Robert Faulhaber took responsibility for broadening the business students' minds. Charles Darwin was popularly believed to lend Thomas Hobbes a veneer of scientific respectability, with his idea of the "survival of the fittest." Business tycoons of Darwin's day, whose success suggested they were the "fittest" of their society, were quick to pick up and apply evolutionary theory to justify their predatory business tactics.
