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Customers demand the warm touch of service in return for their loyalty, while companies require the cold touch of technology to make them more competitive.
Metaskills
Marty Neumeier
A religious genius like Luther lived without constraint in the freedom of this openness to the world and—as long as his strength did not desert him!—was in no danger of falling back into the “status naturalis.”
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Max Weber, Peter Baehr, and Gordon C. Wells
In fact, to eradicate every account of human nature is, ironically, to place oneself in the position of total helplessness against aggressive forces of exploitation and oppression.35 The very ideas of and judgments against exploitation and oppression must presuppose some notion of what is good and right for human beings, in relation to which other things are judged to be exploitative and oppressive.