Human nature demands recognition. Without it, people lose their sense of purpose and become dissatisfied, restless, and unproductive.

The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives, feel good about life.

If you look at any kind of modern organization and you think, 'What are the foremost tools of power?' You will find that it is information.

Large, centralized organizations foster alienation like stagnant ponds breed algae.

Growth and profit are a product of how people work together.

The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional corporate unilateralism, just as democracy is much more cumbersome than dictatorship. But there will be few companies that can afford to ignore either of them.

It is not socialist, as some of our critics contend. It isn't purely capitalist, either. It is a new way. A third way. A more humane, trusting, productive, exhilarating, and, in every sense, rewarding way.