Whole Foods’ John Mackey on Capitalism’s Moral Code

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🗓️ 17 January 2013

⏱️ 22 minutes

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John Mackey, co-CEO of Whole Foods Market and coauthor of "Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business."

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0:18.6	Just search new here. Welcome to the HBR Idea Cast from Harvard Business Review.
0:33.0	I'm Sarah Green.
0:34.6	I'm talking today with John Mackie, the CEO of Whole Foods.
0:38.5	He is the author with Raj Sissotia of the new book Conscious Capitalism. John, thanks so much for talking with us today.
0:45.6	Thanks for having me on.
0:47.6	John, before we go further into the ideas in the book, I wanted to ask you about your personal transition,
0:55.0	which you talk about a little bit in the introduction from early in life being a sort of
1:00.4	activist to then evolving intellectually to become a person who was a very successful
1:05.8	entrepreneur.
1:06.8	How did that intellectual journey really happen?
1:10.3	What shaped that?
1:11.3	Yes. Or of course I would not describe myself as having been an
1:15.8	activist when I was younger. I'm probably more of an activist today than I was
1:21.1	back when I was in my early 20s.
1:23.8	So that was my word, sorry about that.
1:25.4	Yeah, but I think it's true to say that my politics would be classified as
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