What's A Business For By Charles Handy Summary

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This week was truly stimulating. It was very interesting to read the article “What’s a business for” by Charles Handy. This article opened my mind on the importance of integrity and virtue in a collective environment. According to the author, in fact, virtue and integrity are vital to the economy because economy should be based on ethical values that bring profit to the community. The purpose of a business "is not to make a profit, full stop." says Charles Handy. Rather, it is to create profit so that the people in the business can improve and do better, to themselves and to others. Real justification represents to Handy the added value, that “something” more or better that justifies the business. In his opinion, companies should