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Benefits of defining a Clear Purpose or Massively Transformative Purpose (MTP) for your Enterprise.

12 August 2024 by bill Leave a Comment

The top 20 benefits to an enterprise of defining a clear purpose or massively transformative purpose (MTP):

The top 20 benefits to an organization of defining a clear purpose or massively transformative purpose (MTP):

  1. Enhanced Employee Engagement: A clear purpose helps align employees with the organization’s goals, increasing motivation and engagement​​.
  2. Attraction of Top Talent: Organizations with a strong purpose are more attractive to potential employees, particularly Millennials and Gen Z, who prioritize meaningful work​​.
  3. Improved Customer Loyalty: Customers are more likely to remain loyal to brands that reflect their own values and have a clear purpose beyond profit​.
  4. Higher Financial Performance: Organizations with a clear purpose often outperform their competitors financially due to increased engagement, innovation, and customer loyalty​.
  5. Stronger Brand Identity: A well-defined purpose strengthens the organization’s brand, making it more recognizable and resonant with both customers and employees​.
  6. Increased Innovation: A clear purpose drives innovation as employees are motivated to think creatively to fulfill the organization’s mission​​.
  7. Better Decision-Making: A strong purpose provides a guiding star for decision-making, ensuring that all choices align with the organization’s core values and long-term goals​​.
  8. Greater Resilience in Adversity: Purpose-driven organizations are more resilient in the face of challenges because they have a strong foundation of values and a long-term vision​​.
  9. Enhanced Collaboration: A shared purpose fosters collaboration across teams and departments, as everyone is working towards the same overarching goals​​.
  10. Positive Social Impact: Organizations with a clear purpose often contribute positively to society, enhancing their reputation and making them more attractive to socially-conscious consumers​​.
  11. Increased Employee Retention: Employees are more likely to stay with an organization that provides meaningful work, reducing turnover and the associated costs​​.
  12. Improved Strategic Alignment: A clear purpose helps ensure that all levels of the organization are aligned strategically, from top management to front-line employees​.
  13. Enhanced Organizational Culture: A purpose-driven organization fosters a positive and cohesive culture, where employees feel connected to the mission and to each other​​.
  14. Better External Partnerships: A clear purpose attracts like-minded partners and collaborators, leading to more fruitful and aligned partnerships​​.
  15. Increased Long-term Sustainability: Purpose-driven organizations tend to focus on long-term goals, which contributes to their sustainability and success over time​.
  16. Higher Employee Productivity: Engaged and purpose-driven employees are typically more productive, contributing more effectively to the organization’s success​.
  17. Attracting Investors: Investors are increasingly looking to invest in organizations that demonstrate a clear purpose and commitment to social responsibility​.
  18. Stronger Community Relations: Organizations with a clear purpose often have stronger ties to their communities, leading to better support and fewer conflicts​​.
  19. Increased Market Differentiation: A clear purpose helps an organization stand out in the marketplace, making it easier to differentiate from competitors​​.
  20. Greater Organizational Agility: Purpose-driven organizations are more agile and able to adapt to change, as their purpose provides a flexible yet firm foundation for growth and adaptation​.

These benefits show how a well-defined purpose or MTP can profoundly influence various aspects of an organization, leading to both tangible and intangible advantages.

Filed Under: Blog, Flourishing Communities, Flourishing Countries, Flourishing Enterprises, Flourishing Schools / Education, Flourishing Towns, Cities and Municipalities

The Power of Integrated Stakeholder, Multi Capital Types and New Value Model Perspectives

16 June 2020 by bill Leave a Comment

Applying these new perspectives to Vision, Decision Making and Action for flourishing and improved well-being.

For me the combination of integrated stakeholder view, capital types, and how they integrate with value creation and destruction provides a huge opportunity to broaden our thinking and actions on flourishing and ultimately improved well-being for all.

Integrated Stakeholder View

Integrated stakeholder view means no matter what our context (individual, team, enterprise, community…) our decisions and actions take into account understanding, participation, and impact of all stakeholders that can potentially be touch by our activities. The current stakeholder list I use is:

  • ourselves / individuals
  • groups / families / teams
  • clients
  • employees
  • suppliers and partners
  • owners and investors
  • community / towns / city
  • region
  • province / state
  • country
  • world / society
  • planet

The literature identifies the primary message of integrated stakeholder as a move away from shareholder capitalism to stakeholder capitalism. I hate adding the word capitalism to anything, so go with integrated stakeholder view.

Capital Types

For all of history we have only really cared about financial capital and built/manufactured capital, although we constantly make use of human, social and natural capital. Over the last 20-30 years we have dappled with understanding the contribution and impacts on other types of capital, including human, social/relational, and of course natural capital. We have not effectively valued and managed human, social and natural capital. That is all starting to change.

I have been involved with many individuals and groups developing the ideas of capital types and how to effectively use, value (get them on the balance sheet), and manage them. Most of the work on capital types has identified a set of five capital types. Some have introduced a few more but those additions can in most cases be integrated in the main five capital types. As an example intellectual capital is identified as an additional capital type. However, it could easily be grouped in with the primary five.

There has been many names associated with this capital type perspective. Multi-capitalism (There’s that “capitalism” word again!) is the currently trending term for this broader capital type view. The multi-capitalism concept is built on the backs of many researchers and practitioners of the past. I was first introduced to the five capital types by the work of Mark Anielski in what he called Genuine Wealth. As I mentioned the most recent terminology is Multi-capitalism coined by Martin Thomas and Mark McElroy. Other than the name the credit for the concepts behind it goes to many others. However, Martin Thomas and Mark McElroy have made significant contribution to the idea of MultiCapital Scorecard. More on that in another post.

Any decisions and actions need to consider the impacts on all capital types:

  • Financial / Economic Capital
  • Built / Constructed / Manufactured Capital
  • Human Capital
  • Social / Relational Capital
  • Natural Capital (Nature, Renewable/Non-renewal Resources, the Planet)

Value Perspective

For some reason value has primarily been associated with profit. Without getting into a lot of details now, the meaning of value has recently changed considerable. We are moving from an economic view to a social, environmental and economic view of value. We need to be celebrating and strengthening this new view of value. The world is going to be radically different when this new view of value understood and applied to everything we do.

Value needs to assess more from a positive and negative impact on capital types and how this contributes to flourishing and ultimately improved well-being for whatever the context (individual, group, enterprise, community… and the planet).

Applying to Vision, Decision-making and Action.

A new mindset to business and life needs to be developed that takes integrated stakeholder, multi-capitalism, and the broader view of value in guiding visioning, decision-making and action. Its actually quite simple to bring about. Always include all stakeholders, capital and value views in what we do. Understand value is co-created and co-destroyed, value and valuation is based on all capital types and the impact that any decision or action has on those capital types, and capital types can be impacted differently for each stakeholder involved directly or indirectly in the decision and actions.

More to come on this later.

Bill, The Flourish Rebel

Filed Under: Blog, Concepts, Methods and Tools, Flourishing Communities, Flourishing Countries, Flourishing Economy, Flourishing Enterprises, Flourishing Planet, Flourishing Regions / Zones, Flourishing Towns, Cities and Municipalities, Flourishing World, Perspective & Mindset

Creating another new Web Site related to Flourishing for Flourishing Enterprises

30 January 2020 by bill Leave a Comment

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