Michele Zanini: 'We can all play a role in building organizations that advance human flourishing. Get yourself a copy asap!'

Humanocracy co-author Michele Zanini publishes a full-throated endorsement of Incorruptible — calling culture-first thinking wishful, pointing readers to Eric's architecture of PBCs, perpetual purpose trusts, supervoting structures, and spiritual holding companies, and ending with a direct call to buy the book.

“Most founders believe a strong "culture" is what keeps a company on track: hire well, promote the believers, tell the origin stories often enough that they stick. Eric Ries' terrific new book, Incorruptible, shows this is wishful thinking. Good intentions are no match for the charter, the fiduciary duties, the capital structure. These things quietly define who the company is for, what the board is allowed to consider, what happens the day the founder leaves. They keep pulling, quarter after quarter, until they win. Eric's argument is that what's needed isn't better intentions but better architecture. He lays out the actual mechanisms — public benefit corporations, perpetual purpose trusts, supervoting structures, what he calls spiritual holding companies (love that name) — and shows how to put them to use. This isn't only a book for CEOs and boards. We can all play a role in building organizations that advance human flourishing. Get yourself a copy asap!” — Michele Zanini on LinkedIn