Leadership

From purpose to action, creating problem-solving organizations

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November 11, 2025 leading change

Discover how organizations can transform purpose into action and unleash human potential to solve critical global challenges. This conversation highlights practical steps to empower employees, foster innovation, and tackle meaningful problems with ambition and impact.

Understanding worthwhile problems
Organizations succeed by solving important problems, from feeding millions to advancing technology and sustainability. This discussion explores why purpose matters and how leaders can ensure their organization’s goals are noble, ambitious, and future focused, while maintaining real-world impact beyond mere profitability.

Unleashing human potential
True organizational change requires empowering employees, flattening hierarchies, and offering decision rights and financial upside. By fostering autonomy and initiative, companies can harness latent human capacity, transforming everyday workplaces into hubs of creativity and problem solving capable of addressing global challenges.

Collaboration for systemic change
Many societal challenges are systemic, requiring collaboration across companies, governments, investors, and communities. Implementing new incentives, accountability systems, and leadership development is essential to collectively solve problems that no single organization can address alone. This holistic approach ensures meaningful, lasting impact.

Driving purpose into action
Purpose without empowerment is ineffective. Organizations must connect noble ambitions with practical strategies that unlock creativity, initiative, and problem-solving skills. By embracing entrepreneurship within large institutions, businesses can contribute to solving the world’s toughest problems while engaging employees in work that truly matters.