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For Entrepreneurs, Three Ways to Control Your Destiny and Rekindle Joy

Harvard Business Review

Entrepreneurs and innovators are supposed to be happily self-directed. Speaking out primes the market, builds anticipation, helps a radical idea sound familiar, and for those whose name becomes associated with the idea, thought leadership offers entree to circles of potential future backers and supporters.

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Income Inequality Is a Sustainability Issue

Harvard Business Review

Henry Ford understood this, paying the workers at Ford more than their counterparts at other industrial companies, reasoning that helping to expand the new middle class was a way to expand the market for Ford’s product. As with other sustainability issues, the social and business consequences are inseparable. Take an Interest.