It requires great courage to stand by what you believe, even when all the odds are stacked against you. The talk that Robert Garbett from South Africa gives to the students doing their PhD at the Da Vinci Institute of Managerial Studies highlights this kind of attitude. While staring at huge monetary loss and a quick-fix solution on one hand and something more lasting, more valuable; something experienced rather than explainable; with a tougher, more difficult route to traverse through on the other; Bob and Christine Garbett showed exemplary courage to stand for and do what is right.

Caux Initiatives for Business is honoured to have the privilege to cover their story. I feel certain that it will be of great encouragement to you as it did to the few amongst us that read it. While reading the story, it would no doubt trigger the question within you, “Would I have been able to do what they did?”

In this issue, we also carry another short story of a company that had to take a tough call of shut-down for six months with huge financial implications versus safety and concern for its employees.

It is stories like these that inspire. It is stories like these that CIB eSPIRIT is desirous to bring to you. Real life stories, actual case studies of practicing business persons around the world. The intention is clear. We all are capable of making the right choices. But in a cruel, harsh, dark world where evil appears to triumph over good, what we all need is encouragement. We hope its purpose would be met as you read.

Charles Fernandes

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