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
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
When companies create quantifiable value for society as well as shareholders, those firms can be more profitable and become the foundation of a stronger portfolio. Across all investment... Read more
The current industry model is broken. Our economy is built on a ‘take make waste’ model that negatively impacts environmental and human systems and is not tenable in the long term. It is time to... Read more
The “green” movement continues to increase in reach and scope, increasing numbers of consumers and businesses are placing a greater emphasis on developing strategies that will reach across the entire... Read more
Sustainable Harvest’s inclusive business model is called Relationship Coffee™. While many companies today operate on a series of short-term, profit-driven decisions, Relationship Coffee transforms... Read more
Whether it's a fair trade social enterprise, a microfinance institution, or an agricultural co-op, any business that makes the claim that it helps the global poor must be able to objectively measure... Read more
Accenture Development Partnerships is a blueprint for a new business model that changes how we think about the role of business in development and in society. Created by employees for employees,... Read more
The fundamental raison-d’être of all for-profit organizations, which consist the primary engine of most economies, whether incorporated or privately-owned, is economic value-creation. Businesses... Read more
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is a private transnational body that has produced the leading standard for sustainability reporting, used by more than three-quarters of the Global Fortune 250... Read more
Innovation is a cornerstone of the Nike brand. Our company was founded by two visionaries, Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight, who set out to reinvent athletic footwear. Over the past decade, our drive to... Read more
Given the evolving global water scarcity situation, the world’s largest beverage company created a new dynamic with its bottlers and external partners, one focused on conserving local watersheds,... Read more
Broad employee ownership of enterprise is MONDRAGON’s key to a long-term capitalism. It is the centerpiece of a values-based business model captured in our logo, Humanity at Work. We put it into... 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
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
Capitalism’s dismissal of externality issues and corporate social responsibility due to a short termism view places its long term survivability at risk. We examine what society has attempted to... Read more
Every year companies spend billions of dollars on training and development, trying to help their people become more engaged, more innovative, and better leaders. Training programs excel in... 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.