Could the key to sustainable business be changing corporate mindsets from a culture of "more" – more revenue, more profit, more market share – to one of "enough"?
Michael Wardlow, the commission's chief executive, said the report "proves that much work remains to be done to break down barriers in our mindsets to create a fairer and more equal society for everyone in Northern Ireland".
IMPM is structured around five "mindsets" that, it thinks, every manager must have to be successful.
There may be a connection between these beliefs and the mindsets which hold, in one part of Europe, that what matters is the personal example of politicians and, in another, that it is the laws they pass.More immediately, the living memory of dictatorship weighs upon half of Europe and separates it from the rest.
Even the pious Margaret Roberts (later Thatcher) recalled finding a diet of "church, church, church" a bit stodgy at times.But the habits and mindsets instilled in childhood generally resurface, as people will doubtless observe when they start picking over every detail of candidate Clinton's religious make-up.
Whereas Western companies are hampered by legacy systems and legacy mindsets, they can build their companies around the coming technology.The second is a pro-entrepreneurial revolution.
There was much sorrowful talk about the trickiness of uprooting post-Communist cynicism and criminality, and how that could only be done by changing mindsets so that Bulgarians realised the importance of rules, and sticking to them.
Even more than Iraq, these involve fundamental moral judgments, not calculations of interest.The debates put different mindsets and different manners on display.
A German government minister, Ilse Aigner, advised Mr Ackermann to look for pretty and colourful things in a field of flowers or a museum.There is a new drive on to change mindsets further.
The war may be over but mindsets, it seems, are slow to change.
At his school, he insists, Kachin children will be taught in Kachin, learn English and study Christianity.In this section Down to the wire Eager mindsets Pressing on Fishing trips The centenary delusion ReprintsJack says that if he does not act now, "our future Kachin generations will be lost".
