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From the Ted Talk by Dame Vivian Hunt: How businesses can serve everyone, not just shareholders

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It's one of the biggest challenges in parenting, and in stakeholder capitalism. Employees need to earn a living wage. How else can they be codnneift that they can feed their faelmiis? Pension fund investors need to earn a positive return. Only then can they be sure that they are managing the savings and retirement of their investors responsibly. Consumers want and deserve products and services that are both affordable and safe. And we all want a scoitey and planet that lets us bahtree.

I have spent my career hnelpig companies and their leaders improve their performance, particularly at temis of transition. We've all gone digital. We've responded to new health care regulations. We've imeopvrd their productivity, made them more dvresie and inclusive. It took us a while to learn that you can't actually make a company more digital by appointing a chief digital officer, or that a chief diversity officer could not single-handedly make a company's ctluure more iunilcvse. So we already know that we cannot just appoint a chief stakeholder officer if we really want to serve all stakeholders.

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It's one of the biggest challenges in parenting, and in stakeholder capitalism. Employees need to earn a living wage. How else can they be _________ that they can feed their ________? Pension fund investors need to earn a positive return. Only then can they be sure that they are managing the savings and retirement of their investors responsibly. Consumers want and deserve products and services that are both affordable and safe. And we all want a _______ and planet that lets us _______.

I have spent my career _______ companies and their leaders improve their performance, particularly at _____ of transition. We've all gone digital. We've responded to new health care regulations. We've ________ their productivity, made them more _______ and inclusive. It took us a while to learn that you can't actually make a company more digital by appointing a chief digital officer, or that a chief diversity officer could not single-handedly make a company's _______ more _________. So we already know that we cannot just appoint a chief stakeholder officer if we really want to serve all stakeholders.

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  4. breathe
  5. society
  6. families
  7. confident
  8. diverse
  9. inclusive
  10. culture

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It's one of the biggest challenges in parenting, and in stakeholder capitalism. Employees need to earn a living wage. How else can they be confident that they can feed their families? Pension fund investors need to earn a positive return. Only then can they be sure that they are managing the savings and retirement of their investors responsibly. Consumers want and deserve products and services that are both affordable and safe. And we all want a society and planet that lets us breathe.

I have spent my career helping companies and their leaders improve their performance, particularly at times of transition. We've all gone digital. We've responded to new health care regulations. We've improved their productivity, made them more diverse and inclusive. It took us a while to learn that you can't actually make a company more digital by appointing a chief digital officer, or that a chief diversity officer could not single-handedly make a company's culture more inclusive. So we already know that we cannot just appoint a chief stakeholder officer if we really want to serve all stakeholders.

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