Title
How to live without certainty, without being paralyzed by hesitation
Department/School
Ethics and Business Law
Date of this version
2015
Document Type
Article
Keywords
extreme operating environments
Abstract
According to Bertrand Russell, philosophy should “teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation.” Recent natural and human-made disasters have confronted business leaders to act decisively without certainty in circumstances with profound implications for ethical well-being. This article introduces a Special Topic Forum on Extreme Operating Environments, defined as times of great uncertainty and/or crisis which challenge human capabilities, organizational operations, and social institutions.
Published in
Business and Professional Ethics Journal
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Citation/Other Information
33(2-3), 205-209