Shifting the prevailing view among managers, boards of directors and investors from "quarterly capitalism" to what we call "capitalism for the long term". Read more
Ricardo Semler, the irrepressible force behind Brazil’s Semco Group, turned his company into a laboratory for experimenting with organizational democracy, equity, and engagement. Read more
MIX Maverick John Mackey says to create high-trust organizations we need to create cultural processes, structures and strategies that allow human beings to reach their full potential. Watch now
MIX Maverick and Chief Innovation Officer for Dell Services Jim Stikeleather says that for an idea to be innovative it has to be forward-thinking, viable, sustainable, and valuable. Watch now
The best bosses understand that their power comes not from maintaining control, but from devising ways to unleash more freedom, creativity, and contribution. Read more
We have known about servant leadership for more than four decades since Robert Greenleaf introduced it in 1970, but how come we know only a handful of servant leaders? If leaders can be made, why is... Read more
"Money is Power." But "knowledge is power," too. And "it doesn't matter what you know, but who you know." Of course, "if you don't have your health, you don't have anything." Capitalism doesn't work... Read more
As a response to poor customer, employee, government and community feedback to the banking sector in the 1990s, Westpac, one of the top listed companies in Australia, adopted a business-led... Read more
DaviPlata is the first massive e-money platform in Latin America and one of the first in the world, which was conceived initially as a solution to reach the bottom of the pyramid, but soon became the... Read more
There is no future for any pure -ism including capitalism. Life is too complex and interdependent for that. We need organic institutions with a clear view of purpose and values. We need governments... Read more
In the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge, this challenge is presented:
How do we eradicate the pervasive zero-sum mentality in business and embed the positive-sum view of stakeholder interdependence... Read more
A good goal for growth would be to end at a stable peak of vitality providing a sound capital endowment for life on earth. That would be better than ending at a peak of exhaustion, like... Read more
A positive future vision where we can welcome 9 billion people to a planet with a flourishing economy and environment.
Utilising recognised market mechanisms, our ‘infinite economy’ hack recalibrates... Read more
This hack is based on the premise that modern corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a business, governance, and ethics system has failed, and that it needs to be replaced by a new approach—CSR 2.0... Read more
Let us face it: the society that we have built is not working for us humans, and much less for the rest of life on this planet. What we are facing at this time is NOT a management problem - it is a... Read more
Bilateral and multilateral donors and NGOs re-write the rules of the International Development Cooperation System to unleash the real potential of markets and the private sector to end poverty at a... Read more
Optimization, with its Lean Sig Sigma standard-bearer, has always been the objective of management for the industrial era, designed to control variability and increase productivity.
In the... Read more
Barrier by Ben Biddle of the Strategy Consulting Practice of Infosys Consulting (now Infosys Ltd.) on May 16, 2012
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Authored by AeroFarms: Marc Oshima, Ed Harwood, and David Rosenberg.
We have a major global food crisis confronting us and we have a need for a new farming paradigm that addresses the various health... Read more
Panera Bread launched a new breed of business to attack the growing epidemic of food insecurity in America. The result is Panera Cares—cafes where people eat tasty, nutritious food in an uplifting... Read more
This hack addresses the flaw at the foundation of contemporary capitalism: human nature. Despite the theoretical possibilities of utopian capitalism, success of the model is dependent on ideal... Read more
The world is not flat. Competitive advantage thrives in customer relationships, despite the leveling effect of the Internet and technology. For long-term capitalism, strategy ought to be focused on... Read more
Announcing the first-ever MIX live event: the MIX Mashup—a day-long gathering of the vanguard of management innovators.
Meet the pioneering leaders, courageous experimenters, and agenda-setting thinkers who have taken on the status quo (and won)—and leave inspired and equipped to make an impact in your own organization.
We are opening up this limited-capacity event to the MIX community. Apply to attend here.
Trust is difficult to measure quantitatively, but when a managers are attuned to the mood and behaviors of employees, they can sense when trust has been strengthened or undermined. The founder and CEO of Whole Foods explains why the heart is as important as the head in effective management.