Whole Foods CEO John Mackey is Blogging

For a much deeper dive into the business philosophy/social responisbility of Whole Foods Market, check out John Mackey’s Blog. Yep, late last month Whole Foods Market CEO began blogging.

Mackey’s initial posting is less a blog entry and more about giving us access to a very insightful article from Reason magazine on “Rethinking the Social Responsibility of Business.” The article is a debate pitting the business philosophies of John Mackey with uber-Libertarian Milton Friedman and ardent shareholder value advocate T.J. Rodgers, founder/CEO of Cypress Semiconductor.

As I mentioned, this article is a very deep dive into the philosophies of mixing business values and with social values so it ain’t casual reading … dig?

The great thing about Mackey’s blog is comments are open.

Comments

[Steve Liberati]

Finally a company that not only talks the talk, but walks the walk. You see far too many companies today donate profits to charity solely for their own good (good PR). Citigroup comes to mind. It doesn't seem to be the case with Whole Foods though. Just reading this article, the CEO seems like he trully cares about his company's social responsibilty and doing what is right. Not very common is today's corporate landscape. I guess this is one of the reason's they are so successful. They don't act like your typical money hungry large company.

[Olivier Blanchard]

Oh cool!

[nirvana poster girl]

Awesome company! Since we all can see that corporations are going to rule the world the ONLY thing that gives me hope is to see models that this at work.

[Emily]

Thanks for the link to this guy's blog-it's good to know what this company is all about.

[Stefan Engeseth]

A CEO that open the doors for consumers is more than GREAT!
But how about to become ONE with the consumers and work with integrated like Linux?
Could that be the next step?