John Mackey's Blog

When you think about the word “conscious,” what words come to mind? Aware? Mindful? Awake? What about “capitalism?” Selfish? Greedy? Unethical? Unfortunately there are plenty of people out there who don’t have a very positive perception of business in general. But what happens when you combine the concept of consciousness with capitalism? John Mackey, Whole Foods Market®’s co-founder and co-CEO, along with Raj Sisodia, a business professor at Bentley College, address that concept in their new book, Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business.

Check out this short video of John explaining why he and Raj wrote this book:

As you probably know from shopping in our stores, the way we do things in our company is different from the norm. But we’re...

The Wall Street Journal invited me to submit an opinion piece about job creation.  This is a topic I know a lot about so I agreed to submit some of my thoughts (a copy of the opinion piece is found below).

I’m very proud of being part of creating more than 64,000 jobs over the past three decades at Whole Foods Market — 6,000 in the last year alone — and I strongly believe that economic freedom leads to jobs. I love America and I’m worried that we as a nation are not continuing to prosper today as we have historically. I think this is a topic ripe for national conversation and debate to help prompt a movement toward lasting, positive change. 

As a staunch believer in freedom of speech and the right to express one’s own opinion in public, I am sharing some of my ideas to stimulate thinking and creative discussion. It is important to note that these are my own personal opinions and thoughts. This editorial piece is not an official company...