However, it is a business in dysfunction.
It feels in tune with the chilly relationships at the heart of the European project, as Ian Traynor and Nick Watt wrote last night in a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at Summit life: It's a grinding, gruelling way of doing business, seemingly destined for dysfunction.
But Brey said he remains "torn" about the Fed's decision, because he worries that congressional dysfunction may thwart his business' progress once again.
Precisely because "psychologists have never successfully treated sexual dysfunction in anybody," Wilson said, "business" was the real source of much of the current professional "squabbling".
It is a sleek world of business suits and executive prestige, built on dysfunction and concealment, a world in which each legal warrior is suppressing his or her qualms for fear of looking weak.
Tony Soprano once wondered whatever happened to Gary Cooper – the strong silent type handling his business, repressing his feelings like a real American before everything became "dysfunction this and dysfunction that and dysfunction vaffancul!" Ray Donovan is one such American and, just like Tony Soprano, he is an emotional basket case as a result.
When we violate our values, the dysfunction affects families, communities and businesses.
And dysfunction is more common in the business world than you might think.
Our goal was primarily to learn how the nations economic decline and political dysfunction was impacting public confidence in business and government.
Living in communities where everyone knows one another's business is natural, and arguably healthier than the disjoint dysfunction of, say, an apartment building whose dozens of inhabitants don't even know each other's names.
