The E Corp
If the purpose of each corporation is not primarily the health and well being of the earth and all life thereon, if its principles are not based on equitable distribution of power and wealth, if it avoids responsibility for the sustenance of family, community and place, if it has no belief system, or one devoid of ethical and moral content, it is d... See more
Dee Hock • CORPORATIONS: THE SOCIALIZATION OF COST AND CAPITALIZATION OF GAIN
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In my experience most of the companies are run by highly creative, idealistic people. Many of them started off with products that were optimized for the needs of the users and community and almost all of them ended up optimized for the needs of the company.
Chris Dixon • "Let's Run The Experiment": A conversation with Chris Dixon about DAOs and the future of organizations online
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The paradigm we casually call business is just one approach to human exchange. It was built in an industrial era, and for it. Its fundamental assumptions—shareholder value creation, mass production, hierarchical management, disposable goods made for consumers—are today less profitable, useful, worthy, and beneficial than ever. Betterness, in contra
... See moreUmair Haque • Betterness: Economics for Humans (Kindle Single)
From Andy Barnes:
The idea that all of the world should be measured in dollars to stockholders is actually a relatively new idea. It used to be that we thought that businesses had their purpose. Your purpose was to be making newspapers or fountain pens or whatever. And now we act as though the only purpose of a business was to enrich the people ... See more
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The case study of the proliferation and success of benefit corporations demonstrates that responsible business can also be successful, mainstream business. However, we maintain that individual company choices are incapable of creating the systemic change needed to end reckless corporate behavior
Holly Ensign-Barstow • From shareholder primacy to stakeholder capitalism
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Companies, and the people who lead them, can no longer afford to separate business objectives from the social issues surrounding them. They can no longer view their mission as a set of binary choices: growing vs. giving back, making a profit vs. promoting the public good, or innovating vs. making the world a better place
Marc Benioff • Trailblazer: The Power of Business as the Greatest Platform for Change
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“I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists simply to make money. While this is an important result of a company’s existence, we have to go deeper and find the real reasons for our being. As we investigate this, we inevitably come to the conclusion that a group of people get together and exist as an institution that we call a compan... See more
Brain Food: Letting Go
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If you are a for-profit corporation, your job is to make money, and if you're not making money, you're not doing a good job. End of story. It's important to have fun, but once you incorporate for profit, my attitude is that you better make a profit. When I was trying to retake control of the company, most of the programmers at ArsDigita were so rel
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