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Enough of the imbalance that is triggering the degradation of our environment, the demise of our democracies, and the denigration of ourselves. Enough of the pendulum politics of departed and right and paralysis in the politics middle. We require an unprecedented form of radical renewal. On this publication Henry Mintzberg offers a fresh understanding of the root of our current problems and a technique for restoring the total amount so vital to the success of our progeny and our planet. With all the collapse of the communist regimes of Eastern European countries, Western pundits announced that capitalism possessed triumphed. These were incorrect - balance triumphed. A wholesome society balances a open public sector of respected governments, an exclusive sector of in charge businesses, and a plural sector of powerful areas. Communism collapsed under the weight of its overbearing open public sector. Now the "liberal democracies" are threatened - socially, politically, even financially - by the unchecked excesses of the private sector. Radical renewal will have to begin in the plural sector, which alone has the inclination and the freedom to challenge undesirable tactics and develop better ones. Too many governments have been co-opted by the private sector. And corporate and business cultural responsibility can't compensate for the corporate cultural irresponsibility we see around us "They" won't get it done. We shall want to do it, each of us and all of us, not as passive "human resources," but as resourceful humans.Tom Paine had written in 1776, "We have it in our power to begin around the world again." He was right then. Can we be right again now? Can we manage not to be?
