I address this especially to business executives, but as citizens of their societies and neighbors in their communities.
Why do we focus on the conditions of our problems instead of addressing their root causes? Medicine, for example, gives far greater attention to treating diseases than to preventing what caused them in the first place. Jonas Salk provided a telling exception: instead of treating polio, he created a vaccine to eradicate it.
By: Henry Mintzberg
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