The Healing Organization: Awakening the Conscience of Business to Help Save the World
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The Healing Organization: Awakening the Conscience of Business to Help Save the World
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A Healing Organization says, “Our quest is to alleviate suffering and elevate joy. We serve the needs of all stakeholders, including our employees, customers, communities, and the environment. We seek to continually improve the lives of all stakeholders while making a profit so that we can continue to grow and bring healing to more of the world.”
Smith understood capitalism as a system of human cooperation based on a balance of fundamental human motivations: self-interest and caring for others.
It is socially irresponsible for a business to not be profitable; a free society cannot function without profitable businesses. The quest for wealth fuels creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship; moreover, without profits, there is no tax revenue, and without tax revenue there can be no infrastructure or public services. But, as the companies
... See more“On my deathbed, I will not be proud of the machines we built or the money we made. I will be proud of the lives we touched. And I want to touch as many lives as I can while I’m here.”
“Our people’s energy is turning from self-preservation to what they can do to help other people.”
We seek nothing less than the transformation of the workplace from a place of stress and fear to one of inspiration and growth, from what feels to many like a miserable prison to a joyful playground.
Use the power of business to heal, to redeem, to give hope, to enable people to do what they never thought possible.
All you have to do is change the dream. It can be accomplished in a generation. You need only plant a different seed, teach your children to dream new dreams.15
There was no feminine moral sentiment to bring in nurturing, caring, or inclusive energy, and the government seemed powerless to regulate business in the collective interest of society. It was Men Gone Wild. Businesses became increasingly callous towards workers.