It is to profit more from less economic harm, instead of being trapped to profit only through more harm.

Twentieth-century capitalism’s cornerstones shift costs to and borrow benefits from people, communities, society, the natural world, or future generations.

It’s as if when we feel happy, it’s because increments of happiness are simply transferred from one person to another and then back again, or, worse, because we are borrowing happiness from our future selves. Here, then, is my suggestion; capitalism as we know it has hit a glass ceiling of happiness—a limit to the amount of happiness and very happy

Twenty-first-century businesses are built on value cycles instead. In stark contrast to linear production, the essence of a cycle is circular production. Circular production adds a “back to life cycle” to the orthodox life cycle. Value cycles consider how resources are utilized after they’re dead or no longer productive—how they are recycled,

Mastering socio-productivity means learning to create markets and industries for those whom orthodox capitalism is unable to serve. Twentieth-century organizations are awesome at the incremental: creating low-need-high-cost markets, segments, and industries, like Hummers, McMansions, and expensive lattes. Constructive capitalist revolutionaries are

•There’s almost no industry that’s free of conflict. Do you understand how, when, and where conflict happens in your industry, systematically and chronically? Which anticompetitive moves are business as usual, hardwired into negotiations, contracts, and perhaps even mental models?

The twenty-first century capitalist’s agenda, in a nutshell, is to rethink the “capital”—to build organizations that are less machines, and more living networks of the many different kinds of capital, whether natural, human, social, or creative.

Boardrooms are used to responding to microeconomic threats—new competitors, shocks in supply and demand, more complex markets. But today’s biggest threat is of a different order. It’s glaring down from the macroeconomic heights: prosperity itself has reached sharply diminishing returns.

a new kind of scale economy for the twenty-first century: economies of cycle. The more intensely, frequently, and durably that resources can be cycled, the more average costs drop, because each cycle amortizes and offsets the fixed costs of production, like plants, property, and people.