EXECUTIVE EDUCATION - Business School Handbook (Convergence@Davos)

The new American ideal was never about creating politically tranquil societies with a prospering middle class. On the other hand, the great American ideal was about building megalomaniac industrial corporations. It was about advancing the spirit of free enterprise. This is exactly what John Rockefeller, William Boeing, Howard Hughes, James McDonnell, Sam Walton, Thomas Alva Edison, George Eastman, and David Sarnoff had poignantly set out to do. However, this refreshingly outstanding Anglo American endeavor of encouraging entrepreneurs to build industrially advanced societies was never articulately communicated through college textbooks. Another equally refreshing economic ideal of allowing Wall Street syndicates to climb up to the top of the food chain was also never explicitly communicated to mainstream voters. Meanwhile, policies in America were being crafted primarily to serve the interests of business syndicates. Policy makers in America had figured out that it made very little sense to pander to the wishes of mainstream societies stranded in the pre-industrial phase of societal evolution. Even the political heavyweights wished to abandon ignorant voters and consort with business corporations. But college textbooks never explained Anglo America thinking as one belonging to an entirely different school. Instead, college courses taught political theories that had evolved in Continental Europe in the sixteenth century. But, this type of Socialist thinking was a misfit in Anglo Saxon cultures embracing free market Capitalism. In Anglo dominant cultures busy escorting forward industrial revolutions, investment banks and business corporations are the most revered political entities. In fact, America is better understood if she is perceived as an Enterprise-Nation. In the current century therefore, no academic program in business administration, public policy, or economics would be sufficiently complete without a course in American Capitalism. Moreover, in the absence of G7 economic domination, the free enterprise system might come under threat from the Global Marxist-Socialist Conclave. This publication contains a fairly generous selection of thought provoking essays from the GCEF Handbook for decision makers in government and private industry. The literary content in this handbook helps fill in an existing lacuna in university education. More importantly, essays in this handbook set out to teach the art of independent thinking for a new world order.