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Global Business: The Philosophical Business Plan

20/11/2014

The Philosophical Business Plan

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Why business people have much to learn from philosophers

Why business people have much to learn from philosophers, whose insights could even boost a company’s profits.

Business is the most practical of enterprises. Philosophy is among the most abstract of all intellectual disciplines. So business and philosophy might appear to be at opposite ends of a spectrum.  In fact, as Peter Day has been discovering, business people have much to learn from philosophers, whose insights could even boost a company’s profits.

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