What Does It Mean to Build “A Human Business”?
- 2 days ago
- 2 min read
If you look at the state of work today, it is easy to see that something is not working. Burnout, disengagement, disconnection, and constant pressure have become common experiences across many workplaces.
In this short video shared by our partners at SnapCab, viewers are introduced to the philosophy behind A Human Business, a framework inspired by the work of Glenn Bostock.
The idea is simple but powerful: what if organizations were designed less around competition and more around collaboration, purpose, usefulness, and human connection?
The framework is built around five principles:
Create a foundation of caring
Leverage your primary motivator and fulfill purpose through work
Focus on being useful
Embrace problems and weaknesses without blame or retribution
Model business after the human form by replacing competition with collaboration
One line from the video especially stood out to us:
“In the body, if things are competing, we call that sickness. But when everything is working together, it achieves harmony.”
For more than 25 years, these principles have helped shape how SnapCab approaches leadership, culture, hiring, and collaboration.
Watch the full video below to learn more about the concept of A Human Business and the philosophy behind its approach to work.
About Glenn Bostock and SnapCab:
Glenn Bostock, Founder & CEO of SnapCab, a leading manufacturer of elevator interiors and custom privacy pods, started as a custom cabinetmaker. Over four decades he shifted his love of building things into a love of building a community at work, where people serve each other and their customers with a shared set of values, growing the company to 150 people in the US and Canada. He mapped out his successful framework of leadership and culture in the Forbes book, "A Human Business."
He now turns his focus to helping other companies adopt principles and practices that pave the way for an experience that connects work to life purpose.
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