Too Long; Didn't Read
In the current issue of <a href="http://www.consciouscompanymagazine.com/" target="_blank">Conscious Company Magazine</a> I wrote an article laying out the case for how conscious companies can and do have an outsized economic and social justice impact on our cities. My essential premise is that companies and executives can play a significant role in curing some of the ills that plague many of our once and hopefully future great centers of industry and commerce, but in order to do so they must first recognize the <em>purpose</em> of business is not simply to create value for shareholders, but to first create value for society. It seems that by default we continue to look to government to solve problems like income inequality, middle class job loss due to globalization, climate change and a slew of other issues being bandied about in this current political season, without also recognizing that many of these issues are inextricably tied to business and the way we choose to practice capitalism.