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Whole Foods by John Mackeymita said May 20, 2007, 9:20 AM: |
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I landed into John's conscious Capitalism blog while doing a search on it. I heard Brian mention it at times, but didn't know much about the philosophy and Man behind it, and had time to comment only a few times on the Flow project. The Whole Foods Business Model: Conscious Capitalism Our emphasis on team member happiness is working and when team members provide us with feedback, we respond. We are very proud of the fact that Whole Foods Market has been named by Fortune Magazine as one of the 100 best companies to work for during the last nine consecutive years through 2006. Fortune's “100 Best Employers” vs. Stock Market 1998-2005 Read more here I posted a comment there…don't know whether it went through. Here it is. ——————— Dear John Thanks a lot for posting and openly sharing your thoughts and personal business experience and experiments with conscious capitalism. I've no personal experience with Whole Foods, but feel much encouraged and inspired by your philosophy and conscious actions to realize a new vision of Business success on a daily basis. And it is cetainly a no small feat to accomplish, harmonize and balance what you have already done given the many competing interests of all the stakeholders you mention! I haven't read all your thoughts and others' comments here… Just wondering whether you have thought about including in your business model allowing a gradual mixing of traditional centralized value or core mission based corporate philosophy and structure with some local control, self-sufficiency, coop like ownership based on local-investors and local-decision making, building sustainable long-term relation with local small farms, organic dairy-poultry etc and environment friendly products and businesses. I actually suggested this to Wal-mart and kroger, but your kind of business would be most suitable for incorporating and implementing this kind of model. Warm regards Susmita |
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