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194. John Mackey (Founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market) on Conscious Capitalism & Conscious Leadership

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Is There a Moral Code That's Colliding With an Economic Code?

There's two different narratives that go to t opposite direction. One narrative is that a business is just about maximising profits and e that narrative falls into the hands of the enemies of capitalists, because then you've got back to your stereotype of the cigar chopping gordon echo,. A stereotype that is going to um it falls into the handthe nobody wants a bunch of socio pals running our business. And that are just about greed and selfishness. The in ran narrative, i think, i's a narrative that if she's misunderstood. Don't mean to say that out of it, but she also played into thed s of the anti capitalists by making statements such as 'selfishness is

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