Cathedrals are never finished. Men and women have worked on these monuments for centuries, and their labors continue to this day. Even looked at with the sober distance of today’s perspective, the beholder cannot help but appreciate the greatness of what was achieved back in the Middle Ages.

Nor are companies ever finished. In this case, too, men and women spend long periods of time building an “edifice”. And for many of these people part of what counts is attracting the recognition of those who contemplate the undertaking.

In no way would we wish to equate commercial enterprises with cathedrals, yet we would allow ourselves to point out some parallels. For example, the fact that many people pour their heart and soul into building something together that endures; that experts carry out the work, and that the construction project takes place in the public gaze; or that there is a shared desire to show something to the world and enjoy success, but that at the same time mistakes are made. Or we may point to the ceaseless striving to build ever higher in an effort to attract people who are excited by the structure and the ideas behind it.