You probably do business with people you like, and you like them because of the way they treat you. How you are treated reflects how that business treats the people who work there…

“People all over the world want a good job with mission, purpose with a living wage. This finding gets you pretty close to the meaning of life in the new millennium.”

We have spent years endeavoring to bring the principle, “decency pays,” to the people we work with, and Wizard has been a great model for us.

There were a lot of things on my list that needed to be rethought. And … there are actually a lot of cool things influencing my son today.

Often, decency is viewed as at odds with corporate culture and policy, as antithetical to profit and business success. I would asset, though, that not only does decency not hamper corporate success, it promotes it. Some high-profile CEOs agree.

Conscious Capitalism is founded on four principles:

1. Conscious leadership

2. Stakeholder orientation

3. Conscious culture

4. Higher purpose

Burning Man operates on 10 Principles, similar to our Fundamentals that we share every week, that set the standards of behavior. Inside this behavioral code, there is enormous freedom to express yourself. There is an environment of acceptance and appreciation. People walk the street, sometimes in just their shoes and maybe a dust mask, and others barely notice. It is a mecca for expressing oneself how they always wanted and would not dare in our normal environments.

If you treat people with consciousness and a concern for your impact on them, in business or in life, you will get a higher return on your effort than if you do not!

In the world of business... profit, advancement, proving oneself, etc., can often blind us to bringing decency into the equation.  It is our intention to demonstrate such thinking is short-sighted! 

Organizations that choose to build their success on the sound principles of economics and the practices of decency can lead the way to return our society to a more collaborative and harmonious character.