Rethinking Business
by rob hardy · updated 1mo ago
Rethinking Business
by rob hardy · updated 1mo ago
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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
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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.
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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
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