For-Purpose Organizations

Tools for Authentic Organizations: Dotmocracy

March 23, 2009

The end of “business as usual” Please, let us be coming to the end of “business as usual”. Conversations about whether MBA programs caused the financial crisis and what the future of capitalism should be suggest that ways of doing business that have long been seen as acceptable and even admirable are now being revealed [...]

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An Agenda for Management Innovation: 25 Challenges

January 27, 2009

1. Ensure that management’s work serves a higher purpose. Management, both in theory and practice, must orient itself to the achievement of noble, socially significant goals. 2. Fully embed the ideas of community and citizenship in management systems. There’s a need for processes and practices that reflect the interdependence of all stakeholder groups. 3. Reconstruct [...]

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B Corporations and Employer Branding

November 27, 2008

Branding your organization as being "for purpose and for profit" might help you attract just the right kind of talented job applicants. At least that’s what the HR Folks at Reece Computer Systems seem to believe. In their job posting for a Consulting Engineer , Reece Computer Systems not only describes the position and the [...]

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B Corporation Identity: An Opportunity for Organizational Authenticity

May 1, 2008

What are for-profit organizations to do, if they want to pursue social purposes and be authentic? Up until this point, organizations facing this authenticity dilemma had three options. They could: Attempt to manage the incongruence between their actions and their identity, and forgo authenticity, Resolve the inconsistency by giving up for-purpose actions and become an [...]

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