1.Justify the statement your group agrees with most strongly - draw on the readings and lecture when possible:

2.What key insights/recommendations does the statement provide to people in business and management today

a) The most important consideration in applying the lessons of Animal Farm to the organisational context, is the suggestion that although communism is based on noble utopian ideals of freedom and equality, it is a political system that failed because it betrayed the hopes of its followers due to a lack of checks and balances on the power of its leaders who became corrupt.

b) The most important consideration in applying the lessons of Animal Farm to the organisational context, is that democracy, with its checks and balances on power, is a political system that facilitates individual freedom and industriousness, generating greater prosperity for society more broadly (and thereby providing a more stable business environment).

c) The most important consideration in applying the lessons of Animal Farm to the organisational context is that communism is an unstable political system (and business environment) due to its reliance on coercive fear, censorship and lies to remain in power; as opposed to the stability of democracy where freedom of expression is protected as a human right.

d) The most important consideration in applying the lessons of Animal Farm to the organisational context is that although democracy might be the best system for organising society, business organisations must be run as a dictatorship, otherwise, we have the problem where "too many cooks spoil the broth".