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Corporations on ICE in Minneapolis: The Ugly, the Bad, and the Good What do events this week in Minneapolis tell us about the state of play in corporate ethics and advocacy?

"Corporations on ICE in Minneapolis: The Ugly, the Bad, and the Good" - a good read on how corporations are responding to authoritarianism by @followalisont.bsky.social

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I do!! I'll take it if not too late. Will pick up X

well, you do if there's a fucking wolf

I wrote a new thing with a hero of mine!

www.fastcompany.com/91345159/how...

Honestly why are you as a billionaire using the $20 mass affluent Whole Foods olive oil at all? You should have a grove of 300 year old heritage olive trees in Tuscany pressed exclusively by your twink slaves’ feet at that point.

Zafoon!

Every day!

Our cover this week.

“We all saw what happened to Target.”

Everybody has already said but this really is a remarkable ruling. Reagan appointee basically begging the Trump admin to step back from the ledge.

Delighted to be quoted here today

Seen in Pittsburgh

There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers.

Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.

Trump Calmly Reminds Nation That Desire The Root Of All Suffering

Trump Calmly Reminds Nation That Desire The Root Of All Suffering
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The only way it could be inspiring is by ignoring reality. I'd rather have a realistic assessment than fake inspiration

After 25 years, NIH funding ends for child educator at Duquesne University ‘It’s bigger than the science.’

Take that, nerd! We don't want to fund your woke Marxist research on "relieving stress and anxiety in adolescents." Children are the future and the future should feel bad.

The rise of greenhushing: embrace ESG, but don’t talk about it Amid the Donald Trump-fuelled backlash against ESG, corporations don’t like to shout about net zero. But on the quiet, they are taking it very seriously

Unusually nuanced and thoughtful on the current state of corporate climate action, with many thoughts from me

www.thetimes.com/article/eac1...

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Higher Ground: How Business Can Do the Right Thing in a Turbulent World ^ 10558 Buy books, tools, case studies, and articles on leadership, strategy, innovation, and other business and management topics

Last was "Higher Ground" by @followalisont.bsky.social (👋), who merges academic research w/real world expertise to create an extremely useful and timely book that everyone in management and corporate governance needs to read. Highly recommend

Full review: bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/... (5/5)

“Bezos has now created a situation in which essentially everything published on the opinion pages of the Post will be seen as broadly representative of his personal views. I can’t imagine why any proprietor would want to leave that impression. Did Bezos really think this through?”

What a front cover...

Jeff Bezos Frees WaPo Opinion Pages Of The Personal Liberty Of Expressing Their Opinion Look, when Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post a decade ago, people worried that a billionaire owner might interfere with the paper’s editorial independence. For years, those fears seemed o…

Also wrote about Jeff Bezos' nonsense with the WaPo's Opinion section, and just how fundamentally stupid it is.

www.techdirt.com/2025/02/27/j...

Tech titans stand with Donald Trump to kill off activism in Silicon Valley Fearful employees have done little to protest against the rightward shift of leaders such as Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg

👉 "In the 2010s, there was a sense that #SiliconValley was different, it had a rarefied culture. Now you’re just like any other union-busting top-down conglomerate." @followalisont.bsky.social @nyusterncbhr.bsky.social
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