We believe in the liberty of enlightened self-interest where individuals, not governments, pick winners and losers.
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Such reputational strategies driven by enlightened self-interest operate on at least three strategic tracks.
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Enlightened self-interest, he believes, should help in making people want to make his ideas work.
After all, not every company embraces CSR because it now understands the opportunities it derives from enlightened self-interest.
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All one really needs is some enlightened self-interest mixed with some common sense.
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The phrase "enlightened self-interest" has been used repeatedly by administration officials this week in describing the role of business.
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What the self-made millionaires are focused on is their enlightened self-interest.
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"There really is an enlightened self-interest in the industry to do these things, " Tom Kalil, special assistant to the president on technology matters, said earlier this week.
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If they are wise, today's business leaders and educators will see it is in their enlightened self-interest to take the goal of professionalisation seriously, and thus start to regain society's trust.
By keeping a narrow focus on what he believed was doable, even though naysayers told him it would never pass, and by asking abolitionists to tone down their demands, he demonstrated enlightened self-interest.
It was often said that enlightened self-interest would push Russia's robber barons, like their American counterparts in the last century, into seeing the merits of a properly enforceable legal framework to regulate both business and politics.
We have done so out of enlightened self-interest -- because we seek a better future for our children and grandchildren, and we believe that their lives will be better if other peoples' children and grandchildren can live in freedom and prosperity.
He can help by putting his considerable talents for harnessing a business model that still eludes most of media blending a crowd-based free element fueled by enlightened self-interest with a tiny fee-based element based on monetized needs and the market economy.
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Our political and civic institutions distribute goods and services, along with the income derived from those goods and services according to the contracts we negotiate at the individual level and the social contract we negotiate whenever we elect the people who we hope will serve our enlightened self-interest in governing the country.
Yet today the new ties that bind nations are based not on coercion--a lashing together of explosive ethnic mixes like Danzig and Yugoslavia--but on enlightened and mutual self-interest, promising greater stability and prosperity.
It exemplifies the core of enlightened sustainability, long-term self-interest.
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