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Eric Ries | Incorruptible by Design - YouTube

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Eric Ries explores the persistent forces of financial gravity that often lead organizations away from their founding missions. Through historical examples and structural analysis, this conversation examines how to build resilient, incorruptible institutions capable of resisting short-term pressures while maintaining long-term value and human flourishing. Follow along using the transcript. Eric Ries explores the persistent forces of financial gravity that often lead organizations away from their founding missions. Through historical examples and structural analysis, this conversation examines how to build resilient, incorruptible institutions capable of resisting short-term pressures while maintaining long-term value and human flourishing. Follow along using the transcript. Hello! Curious about what you're watching? We're here to help. Not sure what to ask? Choose something:

What if we redefined “profit” as maximizing human flourishing? Eric Ries has seen the corrosive effects of shareholder primacy at every company he’s worked with. Mission-driven companies, however, are the outliers: demonstrating stronger profits, better talent, and deeper loyalty. So why don't we build differently? In the long arc of economic history, our current definitions of profit and value are relatively new, held in place by normative consensus. But we can flip the script. By using what Ries calls “mission transmission,” we can build companies around a coherent set of values, where…

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