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The "Business Bastard" Archetype

If you look at portrayals of power and control in our popular culture outlets such as theatre, fiction, and media, you will too often find the "business bastard" archetype held up and celebrated. Think Shakespeare's' character Shylock and Dickens' Ebenezer Scrooge, right through to today's television program Shark Tank and the movie The Wolf of Wall Street, we’re taught that those who treat people with contempt and harshness are the ones who succeed.



And we don't have enough space in this newsletter to list examples we could pull from today's political scene -- locally, state-wide, nationally as well as internationally.


Kindness is is a verb -- and so very effective. Check out this quick read article

about practicing kindness in the workplace and consider it implications in all aspects of your daily life. Join the kindness revolution and change your world -- one interaction at a time!


 
 
 

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