Rethinking Business
What would business look like if it repaired social fabric and trust instead of degrading it?
by rob hardy · updated 1mo ago
Rethinking Business
- Instead, I stopped trying to fit myself and Every into an old model of what a founder, software startup, or media company needs to look like. Those are all old ideas, from an older context. They can be useful when needed. But they’re dry and dead.
I’ve just tried to be honest about who I am, what I want, and what I believe to be true about the littl... See morefrom Every’s Master Plan by Dan Shipper
rob hardy added 3mo ago
Pretty much every marketing tactic is built around treating people as a means to some end (making money). In fact, Kant struggled much of his life with the ethical implications of capitalism and wealth inequality. He believed that it was impossible for anyone to amass a fortune without some degree of manipulation or coercion along the way. Therefor
... See morefrom The One Rule for Life by markmanson.net
rob hardy added 3mo ago
- The more we want our customers to be a certain way, the less our offerings are something they authentically want.
from Tweet by Joe Hudson
rob hardy added 8mo ago
Visa’s founding CEO Dee Hock had a realization. He saw clearly that it was “beyond the power of reason to design an organization” capable of coordinating a global network of financial transactions of the sort that had started to develop.7 Yet, he also knew that nature regularly achieves just that. Why, he wondered, couldn’t “a human organization wo
... See morefrom The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge
rob hardy added 4mo ago
no matter how hard we try to be humane and ethical in our small businesses, we hit a wall real fast when we’re still trying to operate within the vocabulary and architecture of conventional marketing.
from Writing With the Sword - Lesson 1 by Simone Grace Seol
rob hardy added 3mo ago
- A company is a cathedral built to shelter an idea that might be true.
from Tweet by Ben Orenstein
rob hardy added 1mo ago
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