The Soul of a Business
by Tom Chappell
The Tom's of Maine founder on running a company by values: his crisis of meaning, studying at divinity school, and rebuilding the company's mission around respect for people and nature while staying profitable. An early, sincere conscious-capitalism book.
Read it if…
you have succeeded and feel hollow about it and want to see how a founder rebuilt purpose.
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Skip it if…
you want strategy; this is a spiritual-business memoir.
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Three things you will actually use
- Profit and purpose can coexist, with effort.
- Values must be stated to be lived.
- Meaning is found in how, not just what.
Do this first
Write your company's mission as you would defend it to a skeptical employee.
Our verdict
Sincere early purpose memoir.
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