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Companies are forced to outsource workers not by the market of real goods and services where supply and demand set the right price, but by financial markets, where greed sets the price. We use the term “the market” for both these things, but they are not the same.Why happiness should be your business model — Spook Studio — Medium
There’s a new breed of entrepreneur choosing happiness before profits. But what’s remarkable is how, in making this choice, these companies are becoming highly profitable. By placing the happiness of their employees and customers first, they’ve created incredibly strong cultures and an even happier balance sheet
To be of service is to become bigger than the way we normally see ourselves. Our attention shifts. We set aside our preoccupation with ourselves and turn our focus outwards, towards others.
Being of service through a business is really no different. We expand our sense of the firm beyond the narrow interests of our shareholders and employees, and turn our gaze outwards to the many people with a stake in the impact our work has in the world.
Why does a business exist? When companies really answer this question, they don’t generate mealymouthed mission statements. They also become less susceptible to the fallacy that their primary mission is simply to maximize returns for shareholders.
When it comes to mission statement definition, money is important, but not as an end in itself, so much as a means to some greater purpose.