Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Group, reflects on the nature and necessity of dignity in today's war-torn world.
"Part of the challenge is that too many leaders still resist the mindset shifts required to nurture a culture of dignity across their organisations, from the boardroom to the factory floor and the classroom. Lifelong learning, openness to vulnerability and, perhaps most of all, empathy and compassion, are skill sets that are sadly still too often dismissed as weakness."
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"The Institute for Ethics in Communication and Organizations (IECO) at University of Valencia (UV) and the Real Colegio Complutense (RCC) at Harvard University, in collaboration with the Humanistic Management Centers Consortium and the Abigail Adams Institute (AAI), organize this First Humanistic Management Workshop.
This First edition will focus on the promotion of: (1) human dignity in and around organizations, (2) integral human flourishing and (3) a conception of human work that contributes Read more [...]
The Humanistic Management Journal has released a new collection of articles (Volume 3, Issue 2) centered on the theme of "A World Ethos for Global Business?". You can view the latest issue here:
https://link.springer.com/journal/41463/3/2/page/1?fbclid=IwAR1iDzAImh6KsfK-tisHSO04fyEj0J3HrB2pZ2Cy1lGh88BZGs6wM0XSaZ8
You can also view previous issues by navigating to the Journal page on our website: (http://humanisticmanagement.international/activities/journal/) 
Submitted by Jennifer Hancock:
How do you create a culture of excellence? How do you create shared rituals that bring organizations and individuals together? Is there really a way to be positive in terms of capitalism? Is there a way to make more than $1 and actually make a difference through business?
This is the transcript of an interview with Davis Smith, who is the CEO of Cotopaxi, an outdoor gear brand with a social mission at its very core. Read the full transcript here: https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900047103/can-capitalism-make-a-positive-difference-a-conversation-with-cotopaxi-founder-davis-smith-podcast.html
Michael Gerson, a columnist for the Washington Post, recently wrote a piece calling for a revival of humanism. Here is a brief excerpt of Gerson's reflections:
Most Western societies, including the United States, have reached the stage of secularism without humanism. Our greatest efforts are spent on getting and keeping. Our defining creed is consumerism. Our memorials, according to T.S. Eliot, will be “the asphalt road and a thousand lost golf balls.”...What we need is a revival of humanism.
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Submitted by: Jennifer Hancock
A humanistic approach to business is a way of understanding the interrelated nature of the problems we are solving and the people for who and with whom we are working. We are never simply solving one problem. All the problems of the company are related. We don’t want to fix one problem and create another problem if we can avoid it.
Read the full article here: http://humanisthappiness.blogspot.com/2015/11/critical-thinking-and-humanism-in.html 
Submitted by Thomas Schauer:
For your reading pleasure, please find attached the pdf version of the latest Report to the Club of Rome "Transformation is Feasible" by Jorgen Randers, Johan Rockström, and their team. Further distribution is welcome.
Here is a brief excerpt from the report:
This new report to the Club of Rome “Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals within Planetary Boundaries”, by Jörgen Randers, Johan Rockström and Per-Espen Stoknes, is the forty-sixth 
Submitted by Henry Leveson-Gower:
Teaching in most management schools is dominated by mainstream economic thinking of maximising shareholder value and growth. If management schools are more generally going to move to a more humanistic approach to management, the dominance of mainstream economic thinking needs to be reduced. This is also clearly crucial to change how we organise our economy so that it is sustainable, fair and resilient. We have a strategy to do this and we hope to collaborate 
Submitted by Erica Steckler:
The Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS) Research Conference is a gathering that welcomes connections with scholars in the IHMA community based on a shared passion for and focus on flourishing at and across various organizational levels of analysis.
2019 POS Research Conference Call for Abstracts
SUBMISSIONS DUE:December 14, 2018 at 11:59 p.m. ET
The 2019 conference program includes a series of 12 research tracks and a visual presentation session,