Chapter 5
Recalibrating Financial Capital—How Mutuality Drives Profits
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor, 161–180 AD
If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.
Confucius, Chinese philosopher, 551–479 BC
As yet, we have not analyzed in detail the area of capital about which most people are familiar: financial capital. The key point here is that we wanted to take a fresh look at the way in which capital is generated and, most importantly, how it is shared among the various stakeholders—not only the shareholders and investors, but the ...
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