Business Leadership with a Human Face — The compass for Sustainable Development

First of all, I would like to express my deep gratitude for your kind invitation to give today’s SINYI Lecture at the Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies of the Peking University. I especially thank Professor Tu Weiming, whose personality, knowledge, and wisdom I admire.

The context: We live in interesting times

While the origin of the curse “May you live in interesting times” — often mistakenly referred to as a “Chinese curse” — seems to be British1, the deeper truth is obvious: We live in a time characterized, like never before, by a monstrous dimension and overwhelming complexity of social, economic, climatic, and therefore political problems.

Author: Klaus Leisinger
Published: 2025

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