This is not business as usual………….
In the book turned documentary, The Corporation, Joel Bakan asked a leading psychiatrist to examine corporate behaviour (externalizing all costs onto society) using standard diagnostic criteria. The doctor found he was looking at the profile of a psychopath. The dominant institution of our time has been created in the image of a psychopath, and it is legally mandated to behave as such.(1)
The following businesses are embracing a different way of conducting business, a different paradigm.
This is not business as usual………….
In the book turned documentary, The Corporation, Joel Bakan asked a leading psychiatrist to examine corporate behaviour (externalizing all costs onto society) using standard diagnostic criteria. The doctor found he was looking at the profile of a psychopath. The dominant institution of our time has been created in the image of a psychopath, and it is legally mandated to behave as such.(1)
The following businesses are embracing a different way of conducting business, a different paradigm
New Paradigms in Business
New Paradigms in Business
B Corps
A new generation of enterprises that are actively pursuing
social and environmental impact alongside financial goals.
Semco SA
Ricardo Semler
Brazilian CEO and majority owner is best known for his radical form of industrial democracy and corporate re-engineering. He authored the books, Maverick! : The Success Story Behind the World’s Most Unusual Workplace and The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works. Ricardo developed a different brand of management allowing employees to set their own hours, design their workplace, set their own salary and their own production quotas. In addition, instead of large bonuses for senior management, profit sharing is practiced among employees.
Sounds True
A Multimedia Publishing Company: Sounds True values their employees by creating a workplace that fosters authenticity, personal growth, and community. They also have an extensive green initiative program and a unique prison library program.
B Corps
A new generation of enterprises that are actively pursuing
social and environmental impact alongside financial goals.
Semco SA
Ricardo Semler
Brazilian CEO and majority owner is best known for his radical form of industrial democracy and corporate re-engineering. He authored the books, Maverick! : The Success Story Behind the World’s Most Unusual Workplace and The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works. Ricardo developed a different brand of management allowing employees to set their own hours, design their workplace, set their own salary and their own production quotas. In addition, instead of large bonuses for senior management, profit sharing is practiced among employees.
Sounds True
A Multimedia Publishing Company: Sounds True values their employees by creating a workplace that fosters authenticity, personal growth, and community. They also have an extensive green initiative program and a unique prison library program.
Collaboration
Collaboration
Education, Business, Communication and Sustainability
“Cooperations, Partnerships with innovative entrepreneurs, leading universities and institutes are indispensable for Siemens’ research and development activities. With this in mind, Siemens launches over 1,000 research partnerships every year with universities, research institutes, industrial partners, and start-ups all over the world.The 21st century is a dynamic era. Enormous new markets are emerging around the globe. At the same time, innovation cycles are decreasing and new solutions are emerging, strengthened through cross-border cooperation: among researchers from different countries, among different companies, and through collaborations among companies, research institutes, and universities. The motto is “Open laboratory doors – Open Innovation”, and the result is global synergies that bring cost, innovation, and competitive advantages.”
Industrial Internet Consortium
AT&T, Cisco, GE, IBM and Intel: The idea is to bring intelligence to machines used across every industry. By linking physical objects to the power of cyberspace, the Industrial Internet can dramatically reshape how people interact with technology.
“We are at the precipice of a major technological shift at the intersection of the cyber and physical worlds, one with broad implications that will lead to substantial benefits, not just for any one organization, but for humanity,” said Janos Sztipanovits, E. Bronson Ingram Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Director of the Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS), Vanderbilt University.
Education, Business, Communication and Sustainability
“Cooperations, Partnerships with innovative entrepreneurs, leading universities and institutes are indispensable for Siemens’ research and development activities. With this in mind, Siemens launches over 1,000 research partnerships every year with universities, research institutes, industrial partners, and start-ups all over the world.The 21st century is a dynamic era. Enormous new markets are emerging around the globe. At the same time, innovation cycles are decreasing and new solutions are emerging, strengthened through cross-border cooperation: among researchers from different countries, among different companies, and through collaborations among companies, research institutes, and universities. The motto is “Open laboratory doors – Open Innovation”, and the result is global synergies that bring cost, innovation, and competitive advantages.”
Industrial Internet Consortium
AT&T, Cisco, GE, IBM and Intel: The idea is to bring intelligence to machines used across every industry. By linking physical objects to the power of cyberspace, the Industrial Internet can dramatically reshape how people interact with technology.
“We are at the precipice of a major technological shift at the intersection of the cyber and physical worlds, one with broad implications that will lead to substantial benefits, not just for any one organization, but for humanity,” said Janos Sztipanovits, E. Bronson Ingram Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Director of the Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS), Vanderbilt University.
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