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Why Business Leaders Need to Read More Science Fiction

Harvard Business Review

As the barrier dissolves between political and commercial power structures, the book raises questions about large multinationals whose budgets are bigger than small countries’ and CEOs who have growing roles as statespeople. William Gibson famously coined the term “cyberspace” in his 1984 masterpiece Neuromancer.

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People Suffer at Work When They Can’t Discuss the Racial Bias They Face Outside of It

Harvard Business Review

Last month, in an unprecedented show of solidarity, 150 CEOs from the world’s leading companies banded together to advance diversity and inclusion in the workplace and, through an online platform, shared best practices for doing so. Their silence is often born of a conviction that race, like politics, is best discussed elsewhere.

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