Forget shareholder value – the future is in creating things people value

Right now, numbers mean very little. Sure, sure – if your bank account runs dry, you can’t buy anything. But in the macroeconomic sense, our ability to value economies, value companies, and value individual effort is sincere hobbled because the numbers don’t line up. Perhaps soon they will achieve equilibrium, and stock prices, GDP, and currency exchange rates won’t seem like some fever-dream hallucination of mixed metaphors. But for now, we’re in a fascinating period  in which we can ask not just “how to create value” but “what is it we value?”

This runs headlong into questions of culture, sociology, entrepreneurialism, poverty, Native American tribal governments, currency, finance, and more. Sound like too much for one narrative? Then check out today’s edition of the Competitive Futures Podcast.

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