Rethinking Business

What would business look like if it repaired social fabric and trust instead of degrading it?

A company is a cathedral built to shelter an idea that might be true.

Ben Orenstein • Tweet

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

Peter M. Senge • The Fifth Discipline

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of growing up to satisfy user needs in a way that meets business goals for transformative outcomes

Chappell Ellison

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The more we want our customers to be a certain way, the less our offerings are something they authentically want.

Joe Hudson • Tweet

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

markmanson.net • The One Rule for Life

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.

Simone Grace Seol • Writing With the Sword - Lesson 1

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 more

Dan Shipper • Every’s Master Plan

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