Rethinking Business Beyond Investor Driven Success 🚀

9 Aug 2025 · 2 min

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In this short monologue, the speaker promotes the Executive Abundance platform (executiveabundance.com) and an upcoming book slated for release next April. Drawing on personal experience serving on the board of a public company and coaching executives, he argues that public firms overwhelmingly prioritize investors as their primary stakeholder, neglecting four other crucial groups: family/self, employees, customers, and the broader community. He explains how each stakeholder group is interdependent—healthy families and personal well‑being enable leaders to serve investors; empowered employees delight customers; satisfied customers ultimately benefit investors. Consequently, he envisions a future boardroom that measures success through metrics encompassing all five stakeholder groups rather than solely financial earnings.

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Well, this comes down to the concept I have. And if you wanted to show the Executive Abundance screen, if you went to executiveabundance.com, this is the new thing I'm focused on. And you could sign up to be notified of the book when it comes out and see what we're doing. And that's going to be next April, right? It's next April. Yeah. What's interesting is having sat on the board of a public firm, and having coached a lot of, of execs, uh, of public companies, I'm going to say something interesting, and that is the primary stakeholder most public companies focus on is the investor, right? So when we do that, we're ignoring 4 other stakeholders. So it's, it's hard to read that screen, but all I'll say is you're ignoring family and self. Yeah, like, what's the purpose of making your investors happy if you're in the hospital, right? Or if you're getting divorced or your kids don't know you. So that's one of the stakeholder groups. Uh, employees— if you do a good job empowering your employees and making them effective, guess what? They're going to do a good job of making your customers happy. Yes. If you do a great job of making your customers happy, guess what? That's going to turn into making your investors happy. Yeah. And subsequently, there's a community at large, both virtual and physical, that, that you play in, that you need to make sure you address. And so the boardroom of the future will be looking at metrics that are not just how much money, are we hitting our earnings, all of that stuff, But the metrics we need to look at need to incorporate all 5 stakeholder groups.