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The Shift is an American reality television show broadcast locally in Colorado on ABC. Its first episode, "Pilot," is set to air at 10:30AM on 17 November, 2014.

The show centers on businesses in the Colorado Springs area who decide to hold special "events" where they perform their services or offer their products for free, specifically to community members who need them. Each episode features a different business.

Philosophy
The underlying assumption that drives the show is that society's major institutions are failing, and that as a result, businesses are changing the way they operate. Rather than focusing on the accumulation of wealth and status, exploiting people and resources to do so, many businesses are beginning to focus on the purpose behind what they do, and valuing people based on their individual contribution to that purpose.

In the series intro, the show's host, Ryan Lancaster, says: "In business, it's the shift from age-old icons of positions and profits, to people and purpose. Why are we here? Where do we belong? What is our purpose?"