In advance of this year’s Medinge Group brand thinktank retreat, design luminary Michael Wolff sent both his apologies and an inspirational note to the participants. His end note is characteristic:
We’re all human beings and all customers of our global predicament. One third going to bed hungry. One billion actually starving. It isn’t just the banks who’s integrity and lack of vision is questionable, it’s us. We are the banks. There is no ‘us and them’. Only us. You and me.
The phrase customers of our predicament struck a chord with me. Not authors, you note. Michael is not assigning blame per se, just a joint and several responsibility to make economic choices for good.
Spend wisely.