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Why Business Leaders Need to Read More Science Fiction

Harvard Business Review

Alexander Weinstein’s Children of the New World weaves together a series of mind-bending vignettes into a compelling vision of how social media could change our lives. As climate change accelerates and the world economy becomes ever more concentrated in megacities, rethinking infrastructure becomes an ever more urgent priority.

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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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