The Drums of Change Are Beating
In 2018, Larry Fink, the founder, chairman and CEO of BlackRock, Inc., caused a bit of a stir in the financial industry when he wrote an open letter to CEOs titled "A Sense of Purpose." In the letter he urged leaders to build their companies with more idealistic goals than near-term financial gains. "Without a sense of purpose," he explained, "no company, either public or private, can achieve its full potential. It will ultimately lose the license to operate from key stakeholders. It will succumb to short-term pressures to distribute earnings, and, in the process, sacrifice investments in employee development, innovation, and capital expenditures that are necessary for long-term growth."
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