Recently, my friend Professor Raj Sisodia released a benchmark book entitled Firms of Endearment.

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Mackey and Sisodia are of course not alone in arguing that a shift in the management paradigm is under way.

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Her article takes as its launching pad the 2013 book, Conscious Capitalism, by Whole Foods Co-CEO John Mackey and Conscious Capitalism co-founder Raj Sisodia.

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But most of the firms that Mackey and Sisodia cite are at least aspiring to move towards the principles of the new management paradigm that the authors articulate.

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