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The present state of the Corporate and two fundamental issues

The present state of the Corporate and two fundamental issues Yesterday Kingfisher went off the sky, today it's the turn of Jet, and tomorrow (God forbid) another! Who's at fault? Employees? Company decision-makers? Shareholders? Governments? And the list goes on. I ain't here to find where the fault lies; there're many who're already doing it. Rather, I'm rekindling two issues that have been ignored by practitioners and academics alike, since quite some time. As management is neither a science nor an art, but a practice; I'll discuss the practitioners' issue first. So, here's the first one. It pertains to the practitioners. It hovers around the classic question posed by Socrates in the fourth century BC: How 'one' should live? The question isn't how I should live? Or, how you should live? But, how 'one' should live? The 'one' that Socrates mentioned is the human, i.e., homo sapiens. Homo sapiens isn'