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Brandon Vaidyanathan

Brandon Vaidyanathan

Sociologist

Sep 12, 2026

16:06
In institutional flourishing and your sort of work in that field, is there a role for institutions where the companies are otherwise to try and foster beauty at work as a way of driving success forward?
16:22
Yeah, I think so.
16:23
I don't actually include beauty as one of the, you know, the ways in which I think about, you know, the criteria for flourishing are, you know, a number of sort of factors like, you know, stewardship of the kinds of resources one is given, a sense of accountability.
16:43
you know, a sense of coherence.
16:44
So, you know, if you have a particular mission or your practice is aligned with that mission or are they at odds with it, you know, do they undercut what you claim you're trying to do? I suppose you could think about beauty at some of those levels, but usually the...
17:00
The kinds of challenges that we find are the disjuncture between the kinds of ends that a particular institution is oriented to and then the performance of people in those institutions.
17:16
Are they carrying out what the roles are that they ought to be carrying out.
21:31
to just sort of go and adorn the corridors with, say, beautiful paintings that might miss the point, right? Is it kind of like it has to track into the mission of the organization?

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