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SHAWN VIJ - MORAL FIBER

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Brian Rose

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4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2017

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Shawn Vij is an author and accomplished business leader with over 25 years of industry and consulting experience for Intel, Microsoft, Ford Motor Company, and VISA.

His book “Moral Fiber - Awakening Corporate Consciousness” is described by John Mackey, the CEO of Whole Foods, as “a beautiful journey of how capitalism and compassion must co-exist to improve our human condition.”

It has a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who has become a good friend of his in the past three years.

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0:00.0

We all know what's wrong.

0:05.0

We all know what's wrong. There's no rocket science to this. Moral fiber, that's what I coin is knowing and acting on your values.

0:17.0

Conscious capitalism. values.

0:23.0

Conscious capitalism, a lot of companies, they have their values.

0:27.0

The problem is they're not living their values.

0:30.0

Companies are businesses. There's a P&L involved. I'm strong believer in that. But how we do it makes the difference.

0:44.0

People go, oh yeah, the Dalai Lama, no, it really is.

0:47.0

Like, you feel it.

0:49.0

I said to him, I don't know why, but I feel so angry.

0:52.0

And he said to me compassion and wisdom

0:56.9

wisdom will be your guide.

1:01.9

He said you can learn from your greatest enemy and then he whispered in my ear and he said

1:08.6

your greatest enemy is in you. The enemy is in you. I'm going to do. This week on the show we have my very good friend his name is Sean Vidge and he is author of the book

1:55.8

Moral Fiber which has a forward by his holiness the Dalai Lama and Sean is a great friend of. I met him in 1990 when I was 19 years old.

2:05.8

We both worked at Ford Motor Company and we took very different paths, but they were both paths where we really wanted success so bad. We probably had a lot of

2:15.0

greed and yet a few years ago we all came to a different conclusion was

2:19.6

that he needed something else in his life and so did I.

2:22.7

For me it was London Real.

2:24.2

For him it was actually meeting the Dalai Lama.

2:26.7

It changed his life and it made him want to talk about ethical behavior

2:30.7

in the corporate world.

2:32.2

And I'm so proud of the man that Sean has become

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