What are typical Dutch characteristics that could be exploited to contribute to this? And who would be involved, and in which ways?
Thursday, March 4, 2010
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What are typical Dutch characteristics that could be exploited to contribute to this? And who would be involved, and in which ways?
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To me as a foreigner, one of the strong points of the Dutch is their ability to work together. In all the years I've lived here, seldomly did I find a person not willing to help me out when I asked. When working in teams, the Dutch can relate far better to one another then I have experienced in other countries. This at least to my experience.
ReplyDeleteAnother thing I like about the Dutch is their will to do a good job. It need not be an outstanding job, but most of the time a good job will do.
Both sustainabilty and ethics demand a broader view of economy. Both the team-work aspect and the solid work ethic are needed to work on those broad topics of sustainability as well as ethics. This due to the many facets of the topics and the complexity.
Much in line of the comment above.
ReplyDeleteHistorically, HAVING to work together to make it work (one person can do nothing against the sea...) has been important. Cooperation is an essential element of sustainable development.
In the same vein: being consistently unethical in NL will result in other people ignoring and side-stepping you, because it is counter-productive in solving problems. Lately, the concept of cooperation in solving issues has come undfer fire somewhat (differences are emphasised instead...).
And then the 3rd point: NL is by necessity an open economy which requires salesmenship/ entrepreneurial spirit. Historically not always ethical (the globe is big enough to make some enemies, whereas youe neighbour is a different story).
So this is where the answer lies: 'historical values' of cooperation and entrepreneurship combined with the notion that nowadays cooperation has gone global. So being ethical towards person X needs to become standard.
The world is curved (not flat!), so any other tpye of behaviour will be thrown in your face soon enough.
as we now own most of our banks (we already have our pensionfunds...), through shares or quaranteed loans, we can use our skills as financial masters to invest only in those projects that contibute to cradle to cradle design development of our society and as a result our economy
ReplyDeleteHere's one of the latest ways they are approaching this in Ireland.
ReplyDeleteA competition/movement called "Your Country, Your Call" to ignite imaginations and inspire thinking.
The goal is to gather ideas and pick two truly transformational proposals to secure prosperity and jobs for Ireland. Proposals that could help change the way we do things, allow businesses to grow, employment to be created and prosperity to flourish.
http://www.yourcountryyourcall.com/index.html
View some of the proposals submitted so far here:
http://www.yourcountryyourcall.com/about.html