Complementary Sustainability of the Inner and Outer Worlds: TNS and MHV

Abstract

This essay is an exposition of a profound sustainable linkage for the survival of the earth—the linkage between sustainability from within and sustainability from without. The author, writing from direct experience of both, makes an eloquent plea to seize and work upon the complementarity between the Swedish 'The Natural Step' (TNS) movement regarding the 'outer', and the Indian 'Management by Human Values' (MHV) movement about the 'inner'. Building on the best and most well-tested spiritual and scientific traditions and principles—MHV from the East and TNS from the West—the author feels convinced, could and ought to work in close cooperation for the future well-being of organizations and society.