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Welcome to Leaders for Humanity
OUR BIG THANKS GO TO ALL OUR PARTICIPANTS: ED FREEMAN, ALAN WATKINS, FRANK MARTELA, JANE DUTTON, MONICA WORLINE, LUIGINO BRUNI, MATS ALVESSON, AXEL HONNETH, SCOTT PARSONS, MANFRED KETS DE VRIES, GIANPIERO PETRIGLIERI, MIKE O’DONNELL, GERT BIESTA AND MORE - thank you all very much for sharing your personal wisdom!
A Unique Inquiry Into How To Develop Good Organisations And Good Leaders

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Good Society and Business Ethics

“We cannot separate business from society. Business is a vital part of society. Therefore, the same ethical rules we have in society also apply in business."
Professor of Business Ethics
ALICIA HENNIG
Virtue Ethics in Business: Do we need Philosopher CEOs?

"The good life is not an “idea”. It's an activity. It’s not enough if some really brilliant fellow saw the idea and told everyone else about it. Flourishing is practice."
Professor for Business Ethics
ALEJO SISON
Happiness and Virtue Ethics in Business

"All psychologists are originally philosophers. They just don't realise it, usually."
Professor of Philosophical Psychology
BLAINE FOWERS
An Emergent Theory of Natural Ethics

"For the classical Greeks, any citizen who would not care about the common affairs of the city was called an “idiot”."
Professor of Organization Studies
HARI TSOUKAS
Bridging Morality and Management

"We are only as good as the stories we tell."
Philosopher and Professorof Business Administration
ED FREEMAN
Can Stakeholder Theory Save Our Planet?

"Our life becomes meaningful to us when we’re meaningful to other people. As philosopher Antti Kauppinen once argued: for those who love us, we are irreplaceable."
Philosopher and Researcher of Psychology
FRANK MARTELA
Re-enchanting Our Organisations: Making Work Meaningful

COMING SOON
Professor of Psychology
DARCIA NARVAEZ
The Scienceof Being Good:Can moral psychology teach us lead a good life
Good Economy

“I am not a Human Resource. I am a Human Being.”
MANAGEMENT PROFESSOR
HENRY MINTZBERG
The Urgent Case for Rebalancing Society

"Democracy is not so much about giving people the right to say yes or no. There must be an effective exchange of views - that is really what Democracy is about."
Professor of Economics
BRUNO FREY
Happiness and Economics – In Search of Better Institutions

“Shareholder capitalism is a bad form of capitalism. It simply is not true that only the investors invest in the firm.”
Management Professor
MARGIT OSTERLOH
Stop the Crooks! The Case for Virtuous Organisations

“The welfare state was invented to cope with the shadows of capitalism.
If everybody had good work there was no need for a welfare state. ”
If everybody had good work there was no need for a welfare state. ”
Professor of Economics
STEFANO ZAMAGNI
The Passionate Quest for a Civil Economy

"To say that we are free to work for whoever we want, is also the say: we are free to starve by choosing not to work for anybody."
Professor of Management
PAUL ADLER
Can Democratic Socialism Save Our World?

We cannot have ethical citizen on one side and selfish, economically driven business people on the other. Entrepreneurs are crucial common good actors."
Professor of Social Ethics and Policy
ANDRÉ HABISCH
Leadership and The Art of Practical Wisdom

"Neoliberalism it is the pervasive commodification of most aspects of personal, public and cultural life and well-being."
Professor Emeritus of Sociology
MIKE O’DONNELL
Towards Institutional and Economic Democracy

"We can only become good workers if we are free in giving. In order for people to flourish, organisations must create the conditions for people to donate what you cannot buy."
Professor of Economics
LUIGINO BRUNI
How CapitalismLost Happiness:Healing Our Relationships To Heal Our World
Good Organisations and Business Transformation

"You don't “create” a regenerative life or a regenerative business. It's not an end state. It's a process to stay conscious and work on how we live in what we create."
Senior Fellow in Social Innovation
CAROL SANFORD
The Regenerative Paradigm

"The only way to act as an ecosystem, or as a platform, in your market is to become an ecosystem and a platform within your organisation."
Senior Advisor in Organisational Development
EMANUELE QUINTARELLI
Pioneering New Ways To Organise

"The place you work at is literally going to affect not just how healthy or sick you will be, but basically how long you will live."
Professor of Business Administration and Psychology
JANE DUTTON
From Suffering to Flourishing!

"Culture has two major dimensions: one is that it makes us feel common and gives us some sense of direction. It is a compass. The other tends to imprison us."
Professor of Organisational Studies
MATS ALVESSON
Functional Stupidity and the Perils of Leadership

COMING SOON
Senior Lecturer, MIT AND Co-founder Presencing Institute
OTTO SCHARMER
Theory U Revisited: Are We Beginning To Rise?
Good Leadership

"What is the good life?Good questions, good friends, good work, good money. In this order."
Professor of Leadership
BILL TORBERT
A Lifelong Quest to Transform Our World- The Art of Action Inquiry

"We have to re-enchant the world. Too many people are disenchanted and they've got lost in Netflix series and locked in corporate worlds."
CEO Analytic-Network Coaching
SIMON WESTERN
A Quest for Eco-centric Leadership

We cannot have ethical citizen on one side and selfish, economically driven business people on the other. Entrepreneurs are crucial common good actors."
Professor of Social Ethics and Policy
ANDRÉ HABISCH
Leadership and The Art of Practical Wisdom

COMING SOON
Professor of Organisational Behaviour
GIANPIERO PETRIGLIERI
Humanising Organisations: Towards Aliveness At Work

"Whilst Democracy's organising principle is popularity, “Crowdocracy” is based on wisdom."
CEO of Complete
ALAN WATKINS
Spiral Dynamics Continued: From Democracy towards Crowdocracy

COMING SOON
Major US Army, Retired and Assistant Professor of Philosophy,West Point
SCOTT PARSONS
Military As A Force For Good

"As a teacher you must understand a particular kind of interruption that helps students to disconnect from their desires, to stop looking for certainty about themselves."
Professor of Public Education
GERT BIESTA
Reinventing Education: A Quest Of Becoming Truly Human
Our best essays about the interviews

Once upon a time, around 1989, the righteous cavaliers of capitalism trounced the evil communist forces and freed the beautiful Princess of Liberty! “Mankind had reached perfection, thanks to the invisible hand and relentless greed”. Henceforth, neocapitalism ruled with precious splendour and all people shall be living (read: consuming) as mini capitalists happily ever after… WRRRRRRRRONG!!
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