Orchestrating Shared Value with RoundMap®
Welcome to the RoundMap® Podcast Series, Season 1 - Orchestrating Shared Value, where we explore the future of business through whole-system thinking and collaborative leadership. Shared value is the idea that companies can create economic success while benefiting society and the environment. Join us as we challenge conventional strategies and unlock new pathways to sustainable, purpose-driven success. Whether a leader, innovator, or change-maker, this is your practical blueprint for thriving in complexity.
For Season 1 of the RoundMap® Podcast, we embraced cutting-edge technology by using Google's Notebook LM to create vivid, lifelike conversations that bring our ideas to life. While these episodes are autogenerated, they’re rooted in our website's profound insights and content, delivering rich, thought-provoking discussions designed to inspire and inform. Each episode feels like you’re sitting in on a real conversation, sparking fresh perspectives on sustainable growth, leadership, and innovation.
Episodes
37 episodes
More Than Crumbs: The Case for True Value Creation
For decades, shareholder primacy has dictated corporate decision-making, driving businesses to prioritize short-term profits and disproportionate returns to shareholders over long-term sustainability and stakeholder value. This extractive model...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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16:35
RoundMap Regenerative Business Framework: Empowering the Present while Building the Future
Can you expect a sprinter to win a marathon? Of course not. The two require entirely different skill sets, mindsets, and approaches. Yet, in today’s organizations, we often ask people to excel at both: to deliver short-term results with the spe...
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Season 1
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Episode 36
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19:15
Introduction to Regenerative Capitalism by John Fullerton
"Regenerative Capitalism” serves as a blueprint for a future where economic systems do not merely survive but thrive sustainably. It invites us to rethink how economic activities can be harmonized with our planet’s ecological boundaries and soc...
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Season 1
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Episode 35
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38:16
The RoundMap Flywheel: A Shift Toward Sustainable Ecosystem Resilience
What if impact creation was as strategic and intentional as value creation? What if every dollar earned didn’t just fuel a business’s bottom line but also strengthened its ecosystem—its customers, employees, communities, and the e...
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Season 1
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Episode 34
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13:42
Why Starting with ‘Why’ is a Recipe for Failure—and How to Do It Right
Simon Sinek’s famous Golden Circle framework suggests businesses should "start with why"—their purpose or mission—before addressing how they achieve it and what they offer. While inspiring in theory, this approach oft...
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Season 1
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Episode 33
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10:52
From Striving to Thriving: How Amazon is a Strive-Driven Giant Failing to Thrive
Amazon has become synonymous with business success, often hailed as a master of efficiency, customer obsession, and innovation. At the heart of its growth strategy is a self-reinforcing cycle often referred to as its "flywheel," a mechanism des...
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Season 1
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Episode 32
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18:54
The Flywheel of Shared Success: How Impact Drives Sustainable Growth
In the fast-paced world of business, the focus often rests on immediate value creation—developing products, closing deals, and driving revenue. While these activities generate vital energy for the business engine, it’s impact creation that hold...
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Season 1
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Episode 31
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16:09
Introducing the Impact Chain: Completing the Virtuous Cycle of Shared Success
For decades, Michael Porter’s Value Chain has been a cornerstone of strategic thinking, guiding businesses to optimize activities for profitability. While undeniably powerful, it reflects a linear, profit-centric worldview that often ove...
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Season 1
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Episode 30
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21:05
From Striving to Thriving: How Decathlon is Shaping a Sustainable Future in Sports Retail
In the ever-evolving world of sports retail, the line between short-term success and long-term impact is a delicate balancing act. For companies like Decathlon, the journey from striving to thriving isn’t just about profitability—it’s about cre...
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Season 1
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Episode 29
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16:45
Value Actors: Organizations as Dynamic Contributors to the Market Ecosystem
In hindsight, our mission to provide an all-round framework to achieve resilient growth throughout the business cycles originated from a meeting in 2012. We were invited to bring a local radio station into the 21st century by incorporating soci...
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Season 1
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Episode 28
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13:23
Unchaining Business from the Military Model: A Path Toward Shared Prosperity
As businesses strive to meet the demands of an increasingly complex world, a fundamental tension emerges: traditional structures designed to maximize efficiency often limit the very qualities—creativity, collaboration, and adaptability—that org...
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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15:06
Inside the Mind of RoundMap’s Creator: Three Bold Questions on Vision, Ethics, and the Future of Business
RoundMap® isn’t just a framework; it’s a call to rethink how businesses grow, connect, and impact the world around them. Developed over a decade by someone who believes that business can be a catalyst for ethical prosperity, RoundMap challenges...
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Season 1
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Episode 26
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18:21
Building the Case for RoundMap’s Path to Ethical Prosperity
We live in a time marked not only by rapid change but, more profoundly, by deep levels of deprivation. Across the globe, billions struggle with poverty, inequality, and the relentless challenge of making ends meet. Even in countries where the p...
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Season 1
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Episode 25
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21:09
Peter Drucker’s Most Profound Lesson Extended: Aligning Strengths Beyond Shareholder Value
Peter Drucker once stated that a leader’s most important role is to align strengths within an organization, making its weaknesses irrelevant. Indeed, focusing on the internal alignment of capabilities to achieve a company’s vision has been a co...
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Season 1
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Episode 24
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12:13
Navigating Modern Business Complexities: Who Needs RoundMap and Why
Adapt or become obsolete—that is the stark choice businesses face today. Conventional strategies that once guaranteed success no longer suffice amid rapid globalization, technological disruptions, and evolving societal expectations. The ...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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11:55
A Call for Accountability: The Marcus Aurelius Oath for Corporate Directors
We advocate for a comprehensive declaration of responsibility for corporate directors, akin to the oaths taken by doctors and the ethical commitments upheld by politicians. Just as doctors swear to the Hippocratic Oath to prioritize the well-be...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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4:16
Rethinking Capitalism in the Digital Age: A Path Toward Impact-Driven Capitalism
As Douglas Rushkoff has observed, capitalism has gone off the rails, especially in the digital era. Its original promi...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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12:46
The RoundMap Panoptic: a Multifaceted Lens for Integrative Decision-Making
The RoundMap™ framework addresses many focus areas and suggests multiple mindsets to comprehensively understand your business, its environment, and its dynamics. By putting on multiple Thinking Caps, you can obtain a panoptic view of you...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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6:05
RoundMap: Impact-First Strategic Alignment for Future-Fit Organizations
In a business environment where the relentless pursuit of maximizing shareholder value often leads to the depletion of natural resources, the exploitation of labor, and the externalization of risks onto society, RoundMap® takes a fundamentally ...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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10:00
Revolutionary Rhythms: Mastering the Cycle of Innovation and Disruption
RoundMap’s Cycle of Innovation and Disruption™ takes center stage in the intricate dance of progress. It commences with a spark of Technological Innovation, introducing groundbreaking advancements that can potentially render previous inn...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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11:16
Mastering Business Resilience: The Organizational Readiness Matrix™
The arrival of AI has dramatically reshaped the business landscape, rendering certain skills and processes obsolete almost overnight. AI-enabled companies now run leaner, with lower costs and a level of efficiency that surpasses anything...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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11:26
Breaking the Cycle: The Courage to Rise Against the System
In life, we often find ourselves caught in systems that seem immovable—whether societal, corporate, or cultural. These systems shape our actions, limit our choices, and sometimes strip us of our individuality. We conform, follow routines, and r...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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10:22
How Can We Expect Different Outcomes When We Hold On to Conventional Thinking?
How can we expect different outcomes if we continue to perceive and lead our organizations the same way we always have—through the narrow lens of profit-first, hierarchical control, and isolated problem-solving? In a world that demands more fro...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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10:01
RISE for Impact: RoundMap’s Blueprint for an Impact-First Business Plan
The RoundMap® IMPACT-FIRST Framework represents a transformative approach to business strategy that transcends traditional models or plans. The RISE for Impact blueprint (Responsible Impact and Sustainab...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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12:12
The Unavoidable Revolution: Embracing the IMPACT-FIRST Framework
After a decade-long quest for equitable business practices, RoundMap proudly presents the culmination of all our work and discoveries: the IMPACT-FIRST Framework. This innovative framework transcends traditional business models and plans...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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10:04