Few things are more troubling to our society than the polarization gripping our country. It impacts our ability to deal with the most pressing issues of the day, ranging from climate change to energy production and consumption, from public health to economic growth.
Business will be a big voice in Twitter’s future direction
Author Max Fisher takes a deep dive into the role social media plays in our current state of polarization.
Lydia Beyoud in Bloomberg Law reports on the growing trend to tie executive compensation to measurable objectives in the ESG space.
Ella Washington writes in the Harvard Business Review that many CEOs and Chief Human Resources Officers throw up their hands when dealing with DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion).
“In February 2020, in the midst of a vitriolic presidential election, an idealistic group of donors from across the ideological spectrum met to plan an ambitious new project,” writes Farah Stockman in the New York Times.
In the Harvard Business Review, authors Martin Reeves, Leesa Quinlan, Matthieu Lefevre and Georg Kell explore the phenomenon of increasing expectations that companies should practice “corporate statesmanship” by playing a more visible public role in social and political issues.
In this piece from FiveThirtyEight, authors Geoffrey Skelley and Holly Fuong, in collaboration with Ipsos, provide a lot of deep data on the state of political polarization in America — much of which was borne out in the midterm elections.
This provocative piece by Amanda Ripley in the Washington Post takes a look at how we can reduce conflict in civil society by adapting some proven de-escalation techniques used in conflict zones.
