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In his book Grow the Pie, London Business School’s Professor Alex Edmans shows that companies can create both profit and social value. The most successful companies don’t target profit directly, but are driven by purpose – the desire to serve a societal need and contribute to human betterment and discusses the critical role of collaboration with a company’s investors, employees, and customers.
Margaret Heffernan’s leadership series explores three problems of power:
In this interview with Moe Abdou, Margaret Heffernan explore ways to think differently, explore constantly, and embrace the gifts of uncertainty. Listen to 33 Voices podcast: The Gifts of Uncertainty.
Mark Carney’s Reith Lectures 2020 chart how we have come to esteem financial value over human value and how we have gone from market economies to market societies. He argues that this has contributed to a trio of crises: of credit, Covid and climate. And the former Bank of England Governor will outline how we can turn this around.
Peter Senge’s book The Fifth Discipline popularized the concept of the ‘learning organization’.
“Our species may have backed itself into the mother of all evolutionary corners, but sometimes such moments are when our best work is done.” John Elkington writes in Green Swans: The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism he argues that if we act quickly with intelligence and integrity, we can reimagine and redesign markets to be regenerative.
Three Horizons – The Patterning of Hope – Bill Sharpe – provides a framework for helping to think about the future. This short article also explains the framework: The Three Horizons of Innovation and Culture Change, Daniel Christian Wahl
The Cynefin framework defines different types of problems and the leadership approach required to address them.
- This short video gives a good short introduction to the framework: The Cynefin Framework (Youtube)
- This article explores how the framework applies to the covid vaccine roll-out: Vaccinations – complicated or complex? – Mezzana Partners