Sublime

The fundamental challenge twentieth-century organizations face in the twenty-first is uselessness: an inability to add to the Common Wealth.

One where commerce, companies, and trade do more than just create shareholder value by earning profits or by selling product to “consumers”—where they seed and nurture a good life.

Creating wealth means igniting it in your constituencies, bringing forth their potential to live meaningfully better.

That lives lived meaningfully well place real wealth above shareholder value, people above product, outcomes above income, and are a consequence of striving for better—instead of just “busier.”

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

Today, business is held fast in this paradox: the more “business” we do and the more we think solely in terms of “business,” the more we structure human exchange according to the precepts of yesterday’s paradigm; the less wealth we create, and often, the more wealth we destroy.

at its best, an economy is one that’s not visibly, wheezingly unhealthy.

the right to have the capacity to create—and the responsibility to pursue—lives lived meaningfully well.