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Why Business Leaders Need to Read More Science Fiction

Harvard Business Review

Daniel Suarez’s novel Change Agent describes a near future in which synthetic biology has reshaped every industry. It’s an illustration of how, just as the internet didn’t stop at revolutionizing the computer industry, the impacts of advances in synthetic biology won’t be limited to biotech.

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The 3 Things CEOs Worry About the Most

Harvard Business Review

Randall Stephenson of AT&T explained, “We had 270,000 people we employed around the globe. The speed at which those problems happened was exponentially increased because of the ability of people to communicate through social media.” As David Thodey put it, “Leadership was pretty important.

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