One of the reasons I am interested in concepts like sustainability and Ubuntu is that very interconnectedness of human systems. It requires little thinking to see that any organization exists only in its energy niche and that any disturbance threatening that specific combination of energies will threaten the survival of that organization. Such ecological and cybernetic systems thinking is now much more acceptable in business than it was ten years ago. I have found it useful to differentiate between two types of stakeholders. FIGURE 26• The connectedness of the corporate governance players
