This transformative new era requires a radically different approach to leadership. The tactics put in place to reduce risk, drive success and make us feel safe in the past are now the very things creating vulnerability today. Nancy Giordano provides clarity and urgency around what twenty-first-century stewardship demands as exponential technologies and changing societal expectations converge to shape a better next.

Ditching last century’s industrial playbook—driven relentlessly, and almost exclusively, on growth—allows us to instead focus on building new, more expansive practices committed to human-centric innovation, regenerative solutions, and the creation of long-term value. We don’t need to change what we think as much as how we think to be successful.

In this conversation we speak with Carl Horton, Associate Partner, IBM Enterprise Strategy and Erica Herrera-Betteral, CEO of Belcorp on why the playbook is dead.

This series is based on the #1 bestselling book by Nancy Giordano: Leadering. The Ways Visionary Leaders Play Bigger.

An emphasis on relentless short-term growth, thoughtless consumption and myopic efficiency have ignored the relationship we have to each other. And there is so much upside business upside to stewarding resources—including time, attention and materials—with greater care.

Economist Kate Raworth agrees; as she puts it, 20th Century business was dominated by one narrow mindset that asked one overriding question: “How much financial value can we extract?” Whereas today, visionary corporate and civic leaders have shifted to ask: “How many benefits can we generate by the way we design things? What else can it give back to the system of which we are a part?”.

Here we explore the shift from CSR thinking to recognizing our Social License to Operate; from Value Extraction to Value Contribution as we better understand it’s not about way we spend the money we make, but HOW we make the money. there is so much upside!

In this conversation we speak with Craig Dubitsky, friendly founder of Hello Products and current Chief Innovation Strategist at Colgate-Palmolive about shifting from Extraction to Contribution.