Social Business is Axiom’s Axiom

A reader of our website may be hard-pressed to determine the link between news coverage that spans servant leadership, democratic workplaces and employee-owned businesses to name a few.

But for Axiom News, these diverse news stories all point to what we believe is a bigger movement — social business.

This new-business manifesto is not written by one hand. Nor will it gain prominence through widespread recognition or uptake of one successful theory or practice, but instead many.

Because of this, Axiom News is applying a community development approach that takes inventory of social business activity in its full variety, discovering, celebrating and sharing the movement’s assets and strengths.

We are working to show how the pieces of the puzzle fit, speaking with social entrepreneurs, designers, biomimicry practitioners, strength-based organizations, thought leaders like Corporation 20/20 and movement convenors like Business as an Agent of World Benefit (BAWB), Worldblu and the National Centre for Employee Ownership.

Sure, many have different and specific priorities, objectives and activities, and myriad terms and languages to describe their model and its objective.Yet, when added together, these businesses offer complex, diverse and innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. It is entirely reasonable to view the world through this lens.

Our coverage aims to show that a very tangible reality exists that does not get the profile it deserves.

The assets are there, the motivation and knowledge is there for transformative change.

We have little doubt that dawn is breaking on a new reality.

This provides us reason for great hope and excitement. In the coming years we anticipate there will be many, many, more players who will join this movement and add their unique focus and contribution to the mix.

So please join us in amplifying these successes. If you know of another asset in your community we should be covering, contact the newsroom or send us a link.

As Paul Hawken writes in Blessed Unrest, there is no reason we can’t build an exquisitely designed economy, one that matches biology in its diversity and integrates complexity rather than distinguishing it. In fact, in building this, there is much to be gained.