Purpose Inspired: by Wayne Visser
Prof. Wayne Visser, PhD, shares his reflections on what it means to be purpose-inspired - for business, society and each one of us. The podcast explores how business can be a force for good in the world, and how individuals can make a positive difference. Covering topics like corporate social responsibility (CSR), sustainable business and transformational change, each series is based on one of Dr Visser's books that synthesizes the emerging ideas, practices and lessons learned on the journey to becoming purpose-inspired.
Purpose Inspired: by Wayne Visser
2. The Age of Greed
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Wayne Visser
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Season 1
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Episode 2
This podcast explores how greed has become institutionalised in business, the economy and society - including in the form of Defensive CSR. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads Chapter 2 from his book, The Age of Responsibility: CSR 2.0 and the New DNA of Business. The podcast is broken into the following sections:
- Case: Larry McDonald and Lehman Brothers
- An unhealthy appetite
- Executive greed
- Banking greed
- Financial market greed
- Corporate greed
- A personal odyssey into greed
- Discovering institutionalised greed
- An inSANE economy?
- The belly of the beast
- Reforming the citadels of greed
- Accomplice to the crime?