Compassionate capitalism

the long version

"Business is the most pervasive and influential force on the planet today. Its activities transcend national and international borders. its enterprises are not unduly constrained by financial, political, cultural, ethnic, or religious concerns. The net of this is that business, as a prevalent and important force, has a moral responsibility to guide, enhance, value, and nourish the existence of all that it encounters. In the world today, the absolute opposite of this often occurs. Business today seldom assesses the efficacy of its activities through the lens of anything but profit. Because business touches literally everything that humans are involved with, its activities rise to a level approaching that of a spiritual undertaking. This is meant not in any woo-woo or religious sense, however. Rather, we mean this in the pragmatic sense that everything on this planet--organic/inorganic, sentient/nonsentient--is connected in subtle but profound ways that can only be fully appreciated through a lens of spiritual compassion. Harmful acts or ennobling acts undertaken by business affects everything and everyone in some fashion. Nothing we encounter is separate and isolated from the whole. we live in and on a closed system that is fully and symbiotically integrated. Consequently, we and everything else on this planet we call home are dependent on the viability of each constituent part. From our perspective, business is a spiritual discipline. Spiritual disciplines honor life, in all its forms, as having innate and intrinsic value simply because it exists. It's the honoring of this value--the ennobling of this value--that is called forth when we approach business as a spiritual undertaking. it is the compassionate thing to do. And it si the focus of this book."--Back cover