Vaill writes of many executives today, that "they themselves are experiencing stresses at a deep personal level that many of them cannot cope with; and they are taking actions in their organizations that in many cases reflect their fragile and embattl
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Vaill writes of many executives today, that "they themselves are experiencing stresses at a deep personal level that many of them cannot cope with; and they are taking actions in their organizations that in many cases reflect their fragile and embattled spiritual condition, and thus others are being affected by their spiritual condition" [emphasis added]. Write a one-paragraph reaction to this statement. Do you agree that many people today suffer from a "fragile and embattled spiritual condition"? If so, what does that mean? Why is that the case? If you disagree, say why. "I am afraid the answer is inescapable: too many of us, too much of the time, have committed ourselves to actions that are indifferent to or deny outright the spirit in us that propels the action and the spirit in the people and things toward which we are acting. It is as if we cannot afford to seek the spirit, because this will bring us face-to face with the wastefulness, emptiness, or destructiveness of much that we do." What do you think this sentence means? Do you agree or disagree and why? If Vaill is correct, then what? If he is wrong, then what?
