Abstract:

This paper traces and explains the interrelationship of three important fin de siecle phenomena as they are occurring in North America: 1) the intensification of socio-psychological responses to the end of the second millennium and the approaching year 2000; 2) a growing spirituality that is one of the more striking of these millennial manifestations; 3) examples of new directions in the world of commerce and business. It concludes with the optimistic belief that these new directions are an early indicator of what businesses in the third millennium will be like.