Name: Leadership Next: Highlights from the Most Powerful Women Summit
Uploaded: 2023-10-26
Duration: 3 min 49 s
Description: In this roundup of voices from Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit, hear from Sen. Laphonza Butler, Mellody Hobson of Ariel Investments and Netflix's Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria.

In this roundup of voices from Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit, hear from Sen. Laphonza Butler, Mellody Hobson of Ariel Investments and Netflix's Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria.

Leadership Next: Highlights from the Most Powerful Women Summit

Leadership

Hi, everybody. Good morning. Good morning. So great to see you all here. We are hearing so many great insights that tap into our theme this year. Realizing your part. I'm sorry, I'm still on last year's theme. Rising to the occasion. We've, we've done the Realizing the power now we're rising. Ok. Um Welcome to leadership next, the podcast about the changing rules of business leadership. I'm Alan Murray and I'm mia my perspective around diversity and diversity initiatives, inclusion belonging is that if you want to be a world class 21st century company, if you wanna understand your potential customer, if you want to understand the people who work in your company, you need diverse perspectives, diverse ideas, diverse backgrounds, all to come together for better outcomes. If you don't want that, then stay monolithic and over time you will disappear. And I think that, you know, people are trying to make this about the right thing to do. This is good corporate governance. This is about being a fiduciary to all the stake holders that are important to a company and un unfortunately, the pullback after the horrific murder of George Floyd that shined a light on an issue that anyone who was black or brown already knew about. There was no revelation for us is that the pullback has certainly been directly related to the Supreme Court decision with Harvard in the sense that they're coming for us. If we have diversity on our agenda, I say don't give into that. I think companies have to stand firm because this is ultimately in the best interest of the company, the shareholder and our society in the end of the day audiences do have different tastes. We know that our members watch um on average six different genres a month. And so people do have a wide range of tastes. And so it's really been about creator first. And I say the other thing is, I think people look at us and think we make global shows, we don't make global shows, we make local specific authentic shows and films and then we launch it to a global audience because I also think if you try to make a show for everyone, you make a show for no one. And that's really kind of how we have been, you know, successful at storytelling first and really being very authentic to what that voice is in whatever country that comes from. What California has taught me. And my work in it has been about how do you, you know, take what is the one of the greatest melting pots uh in the world and find com common ground and, and build coalition. Um, and I think what, what, um, young people and, you know, everybody in between senior saints, um, would have us to, to believe is that, you know, things are, the government is broken that nobody is talking to each other. The only way that we were able to pass a $15 minimum wage in California was through coalition. It was not just the labor movement but it was small businesses. It was not just small businesses, but it was nonprofits. And everybody played a role in figuring out what might work for California. And so having the, had the experiences of trying, of working to build those coalitions to make significant change in one of the most dynamic places. Um and, you know, economies in the country and, and dare I say in the world is, and I think an asset that I can bring and, and will bring um to my service in the US Senate.