Incorruptible by Design

While the corporation, profit maximization, and financial systems feel immutable, all of our commercial and civic infrastructure is invented by us - and it can be reinvented. Eric Ries, building on his upcoming book, Incorruptible, will talk about how founders and leaders can build incorruptible organizations that will last for decades and tangibly support human flourishing.

Today's organizational design choices will either become tomorrow's liberating structures or inherited constraints. How do we architect accountability mechanisms that outlive their creators? What governance structures remain resilient across generations of technological, economic, and cultural transformation? Ries will explore how building for incorruptibility requires imagining not just the organization we need today, but the institutions that future generations will thank us for creating.

This conversation-style Long Now Talk will be facilitated by Denise Hearn, Long Now's Director of Strategic Initiatives.

Speaker: Eric Ries, author, creator of the Lean Startup method