Gordon Pearson's background experience combines organisational practice and academic theory. Consequently, his theory is practical and his practice effective in achieving its intended ends. Pearson's writing is about how that theory and practice need to be aimed at achieving Mother Earth's lasting viability. He recognises the overwhelming tendency for humanity, driven by cold self-interest, to focus on shorter term results, inevitably setting aside the more strategic aims of permanence. That, Pearson argues, must be the driving force of humanity, whatever the gratuitously wealthy think and feel about it.
When Ruth Steinam enters the glittering world of high finance, she discovers a darker reality: a system fuelling greed, inequality and environmental collapse.
