<p>What does it actually take to build a responsible company? Mot just a company with a sustainability department, but one where corporate citizenship is woven into strategy, operations, and culture? That's the question Dave Stangis and Katherine Valvoda Smith set out to answer nearly a decade ago, and it's the question at the heart of this conversation.</p><p></p><p>Dave and Katherine join Marcy for the first episode of Table Stakes' "Read Responsibly" book series to talk about <i>21st Century Corporate Citizenship: A Practical Guide to Delivering Value to Society and Your Business</i> — what inspired it, how it's held up across a decade of political and cultural turbulence, and what they'd add if they wrote it today. They also dig into the war over ESG terminology, the quiet disappearance of the word "ethics" from corporate vocabulary, and why the money in publishing a book is never actually in the book.</p>