TEDxPhilly - Jay Coen Gilbert - On better businesses

[@michieldekoning]

For everyone who wants to know how to deal with greed: In the Netherlands we have a bank called ABN Amro, the government bought the bank during the crisis, and this is financed with tax money. Last month it became public that ABN Amro would give an increase of 17% in salary(because bonuses are not allowed anymore under the European Law), and the CEO justified it. An interesting phenomenon happend: It became a hot topic in newspapers, social media, television and there was so much social pressure, even from people working at the bank, that it was not ethical. Finally they turned down the raise in salary, and this is how social pressure can overcome greed. It takes 20 years to build a reputation, and only 2 minutes ruin it. Especially with our highly interconnected societies, social pressure is key for changing everything.

[@HEYheyFEELdaLOVE]

Bag of Hippie Chips said Certified B Corporation. Wtf is that? Went to bcorporation website and then to this ted talk. I am VERY IMPRESSED with Jay and Bcorp. I think it is about direction and walking your talk. Jay knows his shit and is taking real action. Thank you for your efforts Jay and for educating me today. Peace

[@gymnaco]

Reciprocal altruism...would be pretty amazing for businesses to start implementing this concept that is the source and seed of positive growth and evolution.

[@davidhieatt]

Excellent. And needed.

[@akauppi2]

Too bad the picture quality is somewhat blurry. No reason to see this in the bigger mode (well, we've probably been spoilt by all the HD content).

[@akauppi2]

Maybe you are right. I simply liked the message of Jay so I thought to pay attention to getting also the shooting right. Should I remove it?

[@sethmonroe65]

Front Man for big business part 2 !!! SSDD

[@litaloesch4510]

There are some good points to B Corps in Jay's presentation and many assumptions and blanket statements that are incorrect. Whether it's a C-Corp, S-Corp, LLC, or a B Corp, how does one deal with greed, and government corruption? These are human behaviors that are not eliminated because a company is now a B Corp.

[@sethmonroe65]

Please note that the incentives aren't for businesses with "humanitarian purpose," but rather "certified sustainable businesses." Those would be the public-private partnerships that are the cornerstone of the United Nations' Agenda 21 plan. Also, please note that B Lab is being approached by cities and Feds "about this work." What does that mean, that cities and Feds are approaching B Lab to see how they can hand out incentives?

[@sethmonroe65]

We could achieve more if we all worked together in collaboration for all of mankind not for shareholders. We have the resources to feed everyone surely a resource based economy would be the way to go Imagine all of those shelved patents becoming available to mankind.Human harmony not some dystopian Orwellian nightmare that agenda 21 will become, how about Just peace love and abundance,based on scientific understanding and spiritual growth that's where we need to go so lets just go there!!

[@TomasPukalski]

Country Partners of B Corporations in Europe: Turkey (well done, even if it not quite in Europe though) no presence of UK, neither Scandinavians nor new Eastern EU members. Why is that?

[@houseofvenusMD]

6:38 truth. government isn't enough...

[@marcusgentryjr.5923]

Curious to know if anyone has heard of L3C corps as an option to B corps?

[@rickevans7941]

Not all places allow Low profit (l3c) but they're very similar legally.

[@rizwanabbas7574]

hi

[@denisejohnson7686]

To think this genius works ten miles from us! I have a really good story about how several paths we've frequented in education, business, capitalism and technology have somehow ended at the same clearing from where we suddenly can see for miles! The system we want to change is advertising: the stakeholders we want to benefit are the injured veterans of the Middle East wars; the family-owned businesses like ours all over the country; the larger companies in the automotive industry; the government (fellow taxpayers) and charities dedicated to the veterans for the next five decades; and ourselves with a satisfying career that will supplement our retirement years (not to far in the future) with a modest extra income. Our new system will serve society. We registered our business as a Benefit Corp. in August 2013. When our website goes up, we'll be back to tell you.

[@Kararch]

7 years later and still americans voted trump

[@sethmonroe65]

I don't want you to believe me do some research !

[@sethmonroe65]

Why bother with this post?

[@akauppi2]

I don't agree with you - and I ignore you. -1

[@Buckoux]

Just another for-profit, non-profit.