Meaningful work beckons…
If you’re looking for a more meaningful work experience, make sure you don’t miss the ‘Opportunities for Action’ section of the latest edition of Inspire e-magazine. There you will find such openings as
a. EBBF’s own Global Communication Associate: advancing EBBF’s work to increasingly engage a global audience in this new discourse of value-guided work and business;
b. Integrity Program Manager at the European Network of Integrity & Compliance Officers (ENICO), a non-profit organisation for professionals managing integrity programs in their organizations. EBBF member Jean Pierre Méan, author of the “Figthing Corruption” EBBF publication, is one of the Founding Members of ENICO.
c. Community Support Manager for AstraZeneca in London. AstraZeneca is a pharmaceutical company hiring a Community Support Manager to contribute to the development of the AZ global community support strategy and policy and to promote this within the business aligned to the Responsible Business (corporate responsibility) strategy.
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There are many more such offers in the magazine, along with inspiring stories of real people doing extraordinary things in their work. So roll up your sleeves and read and apply away!
Below is a selection from a you-don’t-want-to-miss interview with branding expert and business strategy advisor Elsie Maio in which she talks about what it means for a company to put the well-being of humanity at the center of its identity and strategy, and why those that are doing so are finding great success, joy and fulfillment.
A teaser from an interview with Stephen Vickers, who aside from being the CEO of an organization that gives away its two and a half million euros of profits a year to help people deal with burn therapy and disfigurement, devotes his time to volunteer work in areas of values education and anti-slavery activism. Below Stephen speaks about anti-slavery work, and about its importance in the European context. The full interview in which Stephen speaks about the origins of the values of universality, honesty, and human dignity, and how he strives to apply them to his work and life, will appear in the next edition of
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‘Spiritual laws are as real as the laws of physical reality.’ A snippet from an archival interview from Inspire e-magazine, in which EBBF member Mika Korhonen (on right, with son) speaks about applying values–what he calls ’spiritual laws’–to the world of work, and to life in general. The full interview can be found
In the last entry we saw how some principles rooted in Buddhist teaching concerning human purpose were translated into a cogent, convincing and practical perspective on work and human labor. Here we continue with the topic of the application of principles—this time from a Bahai perspective—to practical economic questions. To do so we include some selections from an article in One Country called
I just came across this excerpt from E.F. Schumacher’s 1973 classic (and highly recommended) text, “Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered”, in which the author contrasts the views of a conventional modern economist with those of a Buddhist economist in regards to human work. His insights taken from Buddhist teaching highlight well some of the points present in 



