Every Company Should Have a Social Mission

There should be fewer differences between for-profits and non-profits than you think.

One of the deepest lies about business in the USA has been perpetrated for at least70 years: “the business of business is business.”The idea is that businesses are for making money—only making money—and any restraints placed on them, legally or socially (and that includes ethically and morally) are attempts to ruin a good thing. If you want to “do good” then go start a non-profit foundation and heal the world—of the very things that businesses have been hurting.

It wasn’t always this way. > more