Purpose is the New Bottom Line

Purpose is the new bottom line

The hierarchy is dead.

Purpose is the new bottom line.

What if we drove into the heart of America to put our overpriced MBAs to use not just for making a buck but making a difference?

There's no line item on a balance sheet for 'give a damn,' but it's the most valuable thing you've got in the business.

How exactly, professor, does one spark a social awakening? To which she said what perhaps no Harvard professor has ever said. She said, "I don't know."

We're all entrepreneurs now.

Rule 1: The hierarchy is dead.

In this age of chaos, and networks, and decaying systems we no longer have to wait for a gatekeeper to green-light our ideas. In this new playbook, we give ourselves permission.

We're all entrepreneurs now.

The point is not to bash these founders and their ideas, but it is to say that if only these companies are allowed in the entrepreneurial tent, we're screwed.

There's a whole un-exotic underclass of people and problems that are overlooked and undervalued. And it's time we did something about it.

It's my turn to raise my hand and roll up my sleeve and say: How can I help?

The very fact that a course called Reimagining Capitalism is being taught at Harvard Business School means that we live in revolutionary times.

But just before I gave up, people from every corner of my community, some of whom I didn't even know; they stepped in, and they raised their hands and they rolled up their sleeves and they said: How can I help? And that's the only reason I'm standing here.

Creatives, at your best, you wake us up. You lift our eyes and our collective consciousness to a horizon of hope.

Just before we pulled the plug, we decided to join a long procession of young kids with crazy ideas who were told by some authority that they couldn't do what they wanted. We said fuck it. We'll do it anyway.

If there is a question burning in your mind. If there's a problem that just won't let you go. If there's a system so broken that it makes you want to cry. If there's a friend or a stranger whose pain has become your own. If there is a gift that you have that drove you here today in search of a way to give it; then you have found your 'why', and you hold one spark to the next great awakening.

It's the 'why' that sparks the revolution.

There's a whole group of people and problems who are overlooked and undervalued... And it's time that we do something about it.