Nancy Koehn is a historian at the Harvard Business School where she holds the James E. Robison chair of Business Administration. Koehn's research focuses on how leaders, past and present,[…]
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An anxious age in constant motion.
Question: How will this age be remembered?
Nancy Koehn: I think we’ll be remembered as being very anxious; as being in constant motion; as being an age that was overtly concerned with getting and spending, and getting and spending; and more subtly concerned with other perhaps equally or more important issues. But historians want to dig on that. I have to dig for that part of that … . They’ll find it, but we’ll have to dig for it because our public media, our public soap boxes right now in this country, what constitutes entertainment . . . very little of those activities and those channels of communication highlight very much more than getting, and spending, and fame.
Recorded On: 6/12/07
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