Raising Corporate Consciousness: Business Integrity, Conscious Commerce and Economic Peace

by Tom Zender

My career of several decades as an executive in the IT industry with GE, Honeywell and others provided me with a solid business perspective of the economy. My six years as president and CEO of Unity, a global spiritual organization, gave me a strong spiritual view of the economy.

Business Integrity. When honesty and happiness rule the workplace everyone is a winner: customers, shareholders, employees (including the executives), suppliers and the community. The business succeeds, profits increase, jobs become more secure and growth occurs. The organization becomes a model for others. Wal-Mart, throughout most of its history, has been a model for business integrity.

Conscious Commerce. The values of concern for others and our environment creates an atmosphere of fairness for the payment of wages, fairness in paying vendors and fairness in utilizing human, natural and capital resources. This eliminates the use of inferior materials and selling inferior goods and our ecology is protected and restored. The Body Shop has long been recognized for its conscious commerce.

Economic Peace. Businesses everywhere are the greatest resource for improving humanity at all levels. If the 10,000 largest corporations in the world were to contribute just 1% of their annual before tax profits directly to global humanitarian causes, this would provide approximately $32 billion per year - the cost of resolving all of the world's hunger problems. If every corporation and business were to give 1%, then this annual $160 billion would greatly resolve our global  water, food, clothing, housing, medical care, education, communications and ecology concerns. Target Corporation has been giving 5% of their revenues to humanitarian causes for years.

The good to be done for our world through business integrity, conscious commerce and economic peace is a spiritual work . And, as we deeply know in the truth of spiritual laws, the return to those who give is always multiplied - and that includes corporations and businesses.

Spirituality in business, when recognized, accessed and employed in our work, releases the best in us, the best in our work, the best in our organizations, businesses and corporations, and the best in our economy. We have raised our corporate consciousness - raised our business consciousness - and we and our world are the benefactors.

Our spiritual qualities of honesty, kindness, forgiveness, gratitude, empathy, compassion, joy and gratitude foster three key areas of business and economic improvement: Business Integrity, Conscious Commerce and Economic Peace. 

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