John Mackey

John Mackey

CEO, Whole Foods Market

A smiling man with short, curly gray hair wearing a white collared shirt stands in an indoor setting.

John Mackey is the former CEO and co-founder of Whole Foods Market, co-founder of the nonprofit Conscious Capitalism, Inc., and co-author of Conscious Capitalism and The Whole Story, among other books. He has devoted his life to selling natural and organic foods and building a better business model.

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Stakeholder-based “conscious capitalism” realigns the short-term profit model of capitalism that has undervalued employees, customers, and suppliers.
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When creativity and entrepreneurship are unleashed, and when new innovations are introduced to an open marketplace, there are no limits to human achievement.
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There are several strands within libertarianism—some over-emphasizing selfishness and under-emphasizing collective human flourishing. Yet at its core, libertarianism is about humanity’s need to be free.
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The nuts and bolts of running a company—from meeting payroll each week and satisfying customers to taking on competitors—revealed that Mackey’s idealistic notions of the fair distribution of resources were […]