{"id":4524,"date":"2020-04-10T10:15:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T17:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markccrowley.com\/?p=4524"},"modified":"2020-04-10T10:32:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T17:32:00","slug":"alex-edmans-the-choice-between-people-profits-is-a-false-dichotomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-wmplo.xyz\/mark-c-divi5\/alex-edmans-the-choice-between-people-profits-is-a-false-dichotomy\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Edmans: The Choice Between People &#038; Profits Is A False Dichotomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.blubrry.com\/?media_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.blubrry.com%2Fleadfromtheheartpodcast%2Fcontent.blubrry.com%2Fleadfromtheheartpodcast%2FLFTH_-_Episode_46.mp3&amp;podcast_link=https%3A%2F%2Fstaging-wmplo.xyz%2Fmark-c-divi5%2Falex-edmans-the-choice-between-people-profits-is-a-false-dichotomy%2F#mode-Light&border-000000&progress-000000\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"165\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"blubrryplayer-1\" class=\"blubrryplayer\" title=\"Blubrry Podcast Player\"><\/iframe><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/leadfromtheheartpodcast\/content.blubrry.com\/leadfromtheheartpodcast\/LFTH_-_Episode_46.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/staging-wmplo.xyz\/mark-c-divi5\/?powerpress_pinw=4524-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/leadfromtheheartpodcast\/content.blubrry.com\/leadfromtheheartpodcast\/LFTH_-_Episode_46.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"LFTH_-_Episode_46.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/staging-wmplo.xyz\/mark-c-divi5\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/alex-1000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4525 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-wmplo.xyz\/mark-c-divi5\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/alex-1000-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now Is The Time To Make Employees As Important As Shareholders:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For decades, businesses have deferred to the interests of shareholders above and beyond the interests of all other stakeholders <strong><em>\u2013 <\/em><\/strong> most especially employees. And according to\u00a0<strong>London Business School finance professor, Alex Edmans,<\/strong>\u00a0shareholders have long been conditioned to believe that the value any company produces is a fixed pie \u2013 and so the only way for them to retain the largest slice of the pie is to ensure the size of the pie all other stakeholders get remains small. \u00a0This mindset has meant that shareholders have seen every dollar spent on workers as dollars taken away from them.<\/p>\n<p>But in his new, inspiring &amp; wonderfully researched book,\u00a0<strong>\u201c<em>Grow The Pie, How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose And Profit,\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Alex introduces a far more enlightened &amp; innovative mindset \u2013 the idea that the size of company pies are not fixed after all.\u00a0 <strong>\u201c<em>And when all members of an organization work together, bound by a common purpose and focused on the long term, they actually create shared value in a way that enlarges the slices of everyone \u2013 shareholders, workers, customers, suppliers, the environment, communities and taxpayers.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s by no means surprising that Alex is the one to be introducing a new leadership paradigm, nor that it\u2019s this timely. The COVID-19 crisis has quickly revealed cracks in the business models of many companies. And with all of us having time to reflect on the current effectiveness of workplace leadership, the idea that employees &amp; other stakeholders are a drag on shareholder returns has surely proved indefensible.<\/p>\n<p>As you&#8217;ll discover as you listen, Alex is an extraordinary thinker.\u00a0 A<strong>\u00a0graduate of Oxford University &amp; a Fulbright Scholar while earning PhD in Finance from MIT\u2019s Sloan school, he became one of the youngest professors to ever earn tenure at the Wharton Business School. 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