If they can align their personal purpose with the company’s purpose, there is a congruence that inspires them to do superior work, create great products and innovations, achieve the highest quality, and provide customers with superior service. Most employees know they will never be wealthy, but they want to make a difference through their work. It is the purpose and values that motivate and unify employees worldwide, not merely a company’s financial goals. Every company should start with a clear purpose and set of values that go beyond making money. Let’s focus on how shareholder value is created. In fact, Fink is one of the world’s great capitalists” “Does this make Larry Fink a socialist? Hardly. What’s missing in this debate is a deeper understanding of how value is created, and how it benefits all stakeholders in society-especially shareholders. When they do so, they transcend this binary choice and achieve both results. This is a wrong-headed idea because companies with clarity about their purpose actually perform better in the long run. They believe that companies must select among binary options of serving shareholders or serving society. Yet many other fund managers, private equity executives, and activist investors believe Fink’s push toward the stakeholder model will sacrifice their returns. He cofounded BlackRock in 1988 and has grown it into the world’s largest money manager with more than $6 trillion in assets under management. In fact, Fink is one of the world’s great capitalists. are preaching pure and unadulterated socialism.”ĭoes this make Larry Fink a socialist? Hardly.
Friedman argued that businessmen who “take seriously their responsibilities for providing employment, eliminating discrimination, avoiding pollution or whatever else. This position sharply contrasts to Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman’s famous 1970 article, The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits.
Companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.” “To prosper over time, every company must not only deliver financial performance but also show how it makes a positive contribution to society. “Society is demanding that companies, both public and private, serve a social purpose,” Fink wrote. It does not pull its punches as Fink tells CEOs that their companies must serve a social purpose. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink’s recent letter to all CEOs in the S&P 500 has reignited the never-ending debate of “shareholders versus stakeholders.” Titled “A Sense of Purpose,” Fink’s letter is both inspiring and blunt.
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