I have been thinking lately about the connection between the business world and the social world. Does a single underlying principle connected the two? If a person could succeed in one world, could he bring that same mindset to the other world and also be successful? Before I began my analysis, I hypothesized that the two worlds would indeed parallel one another. Each would have different constituents and goals but the same underlying principle would apply.
While my analysis simplifies things greatly, to the point in which I cannot declare it as truth, I believe that I have caught onto something. I would need more factual information in order to be completely credible. Let me start by listing the goals of the social and business worlds.
Business: 1. to increase the financial wellbeing of one’s parent institution 2. to increase one’s own financial wellbeing 3. to increase one’s status/position.
Social: 1. to make friends 2. to make associates 3. to make romantic interests 4. to be respected.
The business world places an emphasis on upward mobility and accumulation. The social world is much more ambiguous. ‘Making friends, associates and romantic interests’ can be seen as upward mobility and accumulation, but it not necessarily need be. Some people don’t desire this social accumulation. Others are fiends for it. Upon further analysis, the social world only becomes murkier…
