S9-Ep5: Leading with Care and Purpose
Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our Future
The Battle for the Purpose of Business
I think we made a lot of progress over the last few decades. I never heard of purpose until 25 years ago. Every business at least pays lip service to it. Movements like ours, B core, B team, just capital, inclusive capitalism have been growing and attracting more attention as well as followers. And so I think we're in that phase, and I believe there is an episode three always.
Guests: Raj Sisodia & Sudhanshu Palsule
In this episode, Raj Sisodia and Sudhanshu Palsule explore the power of conscious leadership. With Conscious Capitalism, this can inspire a higher purpose for businesses, transcending the old Industrial Era story of profit-driven motives. The world has changed dramatically, but our leadership and business models have yet to catch up.
United in their belief that business can be a force of good, they share their research and personal journeys as they forged new leadership principles of purpose, wholeness, and healing.
Here's what Raj, Sudhanshu, and host Maureen Metcalf cover:
- The four pillars of 21st Century leadership (and business);
- The importance of evolving from a shareholder mindset to a stakeholder mindset; and
- How leaders and their organizations profit by combining the best of their masculine and feminine cultural energies.
Other episodes you'll enjoy:
- Should IT Executives Share their Soft Side? – with David White
- Joy at Work – with Roxanne Brown & Edward Cooke
- Leading with Care in a Tough World – with Bob DeKoch & Phil Clampitt
For daily wisdom from our guests, be sure to follow us on LinkedIn . We're on Mastodon, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, too!
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RESOURCES:
You’ll find more from Raj and Sudhanshu on their websites: ConsciousCapitalism.org and RajSisodia.com, or RehumanizingLeadership.com and SudhanshuPalsule.com, respectively.
Both Raj and Sudhanshu have written many books. Raj’s include the seminal Conscious Capitalism, as well as Firms of Endearment, and Shakti Leadership. Raj also blogs at ConsciousCapitalism.Typepad.com/conscious-capitalism.
Sudhanshu’s books include Rehumanizing Leadership and The Social Leader.
For Adam Smith’s thoughts on the social obligations of capitalists, read The Theory of Moral Sentiments.
Our host, Maureen Metcalf, posts a newsletter every week on LinkedIn. You can subscribe here.
She’s also written several award-winning books on leadership development. You can peruse and purchase them here.
Books we’re reading for fun or personal development right now include:
- The Bassoon King by Rainn Wilson
- This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley
- Adventureman by Matt Fraction and Terry & Rachel Dodson
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OUR PODCAST TEAM:
Host & Executive Producer: Maureen Metcalf
Editor & Producer: Dan Mushalko
Video & Graphics Editor: Devon Mushalko
Our Consciously Caring Colleagues: Luigi Morelli, Jenna Reik, & Connor Carson
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About Our Guests:
Raj Sisodia is FEMSA Distinguished University Professor of Conscious Enterprise and Chairman of the Conscious Enterprise Center at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico. He is also Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Conscious Capitalism Inc. Raj has a Ph. D. in Business from Columbia University. His fifteen books include Conscious Capitalism (2013), Everybody Matters (2015), Firms of Endearment and The Healing Organization. Raj has worked with numerous companies, including AT&T, Verizon, LG, BorgWarner, Kraft Foods, Whole Foods Market, Tata, Siemens, Sprint, Volvo, IBM, Walmart and McDonalds. Raj received an honorary doctorate from Johnson & Wales University and has served on the boards of Mastek and The Container Store.
Sudhanshu Palsule is an award-winning educator, leadership philosopher, CEO advisor, author, and speaker. He is regarded as one of the leading thinkers in the fields of Transformative Leadership and Leading in Complexity. Author of several books, his latest book, “Rehumanizing Leadership” was published in 2020. Sudhanshu is a fellow at Cambridge University’s Institute for Sustainability Leadership. He is also an Educator and Academic Director at Duke CE (part of Duke University, USA). He has written several books including The Social Leader, Managing in Four Worlds, The Ecology of Organizations, Personal Growth, and Science, Technology, and Social Change.
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