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4th - 5th November 2020, Online, Worldwide
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4th - 6th November 2020, Online, Worldwide

2020 Eighth Annual Humanistic Management Conference

The 2020 Eighth Annual Humanistic Management Conference will take place online and is brought to you by Chapters of the Humanistic Management Network from around the world.

Our 2020 conference will be different from our previous conferences as it will be our first online conference and the driving force behind this year's conference format are contributions by our Chapters from around the world. We wanted to make productive use of the circumstances and turn a challenge into an opportunity. So if we cannot be together in one place at least we can virtually be in all the places where our community is active. Consequently this year's conference theme, Unity in Diversity, has a dual connotation.

On one hand we want to use the decentral character of the online format to celebrate the diverse and rich community that forms the Humanistic Management Network and unites our members behind our shared purpose. We, the Humanistic Management Network, show Unity in Diversity. On the other hand we find our world increasingly divided with ever more voices tuning in to toxic narratives of division, exclusion, suppression and aggression. We know these narratives are unable to guide us towards any desirable outcomes; we know that that which unites us is much bigger, stronger and more relevant than that which separates us. So we will show during this conference that there is Unity in Diversity and how business can exercise agency to embrace and promote diversity to the benefit of all stakeholders involved.

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"On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world, shareholder value is a result, not a strategy … Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products." Jack Welsh


"Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper." Kazuo Inamori


"It is not because I have a lot of money that I pay my workers well but because I pay my workers well I have a lot of money." Robert Bosch


"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." Peter Drucker


"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." Anne Frank


"Wealth consists in using things rather than in owning them; it is really the activity – that is, the use – of property that constitutes wealth." Aristoteles


"Everything has either a price or dignity. Whatever has a price can be replaced by something else which is equivalent; whatever, on the other hand, is above all price, and therefore admits of no equivalent, has a dignity." Immanuel Kant


"And this is common to all external things that they are good to the extent that they lead to virtue, but not in themselves." Thomas Aquinas


"The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the public is catching on." Warren Buffett


"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business." Henry Ford


"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof." John Kenneth Galbraith


"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality." Desmond Tutu


"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." Buddha


"We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization." Kofi Annan


"Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life." Dalai Lama


"Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence." Hannah Arendt


"Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary." Martin Luther King, Jr.


"It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world." Mary Wollstonecraft


"Who is rich? He who rejoices in his portion." The Talmud