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Can Business Be Human?

Can Business Be Human?

Jonathan Cook: Welcome to This Human Business, a podcast that explores the opportunities for the reform of conventional business culture. What if there was an alternative to the cold machine of digital algorithms and automation that dominate business culture today? What if business could replace 

Cultivating Business As A Garden

Cultivating Business As A Garden

Jonathan Cook:  Welcome to This Human Business, a podcast giving voice to the movement of business professionals seeking an alternative to the technologically obsessed machinery of conventional business culture.  There’s nothing that represents the analog side of humanity better than a garden. This episode will 

The Pilgrimage of Business

The Pilgrimage of Business

It’s emotional movement accompanying physical movement that makes a pilgrimage a pilgrimage. Applying this experience in business opens an escape hatch out of commoditization.

Time, for Business

Time, for Business

Time is at the heart of the struggle over the culture of business, and has been for generations.

The Unreal Business of Poetry and Fairy Tales

The Unreal Business of Poetry and Fairy Tales

Jonathan Cook: Welcome to This Human Business, a podcast that covers the side of business that cannot be automated through digital technology. Over the last several weeks, this podcast has had some harsh things to say about the present condition of business culture. I could 

Business Roundtable Statement Put to the Test

Business Roundtable Statement Put to the Test

This week, The Intercept reported that Blackstone, a gigantic investment firm whose CEO, Stephen Schwarzman, belongs to Business Roundtable, is the majority owner of a business that makes its money by helping people to burn the Amazon rainforest. Will the Business Roundtable continue to look the other way?

Digital Racism

Digital Racism

Jonathan Cook: Welcome to This Human Business, a podcast representing the movement to reform business culture, moving it away from its obsession with digital efficiency to find new ways of working. Conventional business writing has a tendency to engage in what, in last week’s episode, 

The Business of Human Emotion

The Business of Human Emotion

Understanding emotion is vital to success in business, but how can businesses come to grips with emotion, effectively and ethically? What do scientific studies have to teach us about attempts to automate the study of emotion, and what are the human alternatives?

Purpose Washing from the Business Roundtable: A Special Episode

Purpose Washing from the Business Roundtable: A Special Episode

Welcome to a special episode of This Human Business, a podcast dedicated to the movement to reform business culture, counterbalancing the drive for wealth through the machinery of industry by reasserting human values. This morning, Americans woke up to a surprising headline from the Washington 

The Fear of Amazon – A Preview of Emotion

The Fear of Amazon – A Preview of Emotion

On Monday, August 19, a new episode from the podcast This Human Business will confront the dark side, the light side, the absurd side of emotion in business.