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What We're Thinking
What's a Workplace For? Kathy Bardswick, CEO of The Co-operators shared with us last week her organization's approach to governance and shared value. With representation on its board from customers, employees and shareholders, The Co-operators, says Bardswick, is much better able to integrate the needs and aspirations of all three key stakeholder groups.
Friends of Axiom News, Innovation Partners International recently opened up its space and invited new associates into a strategy shaping gathering for the firm, with remarkable results.
This kind of work builds social capital and approaches the true potential of organization.
Peter Drucker asserted there are two purposes for an organization, to fulfill a human or social need and to provide people with opportunities to do meaningful work.
He was clear that organizations are the "organ by which society achieves results." Combining the strengths of individuals and abilities in pursuit of a common purpose is the most universally applicable way to get things done for society. Having witnessed the tearing of social fabric in Europe preceding the Second World War in particular, Drucker proceeded to create new thought about organization which could ensure such tearing did not result in similar future catastrophes.
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