The End of Zero-Sum Leadership

Leaders' role changed in three fundamental ways:

1) it is no longer about maximizing shareholder value; it is about making a positive difference in the world. 

2) the leaders' job is to maximize performance not by choosing among stakeholders but by embracing, mobilizing, and serving all of them in line with a noble purpose, and refusing zero-sum games along the way. 

3) the purposeful human organization cannot flourish with the traditional top-down model of the powerful and infailible hero-leader. What is required now is a leadership approach that puts purpose and people at the heart of business.