Corporations may not be people, despite what then-presidential candidate Mitt Romney insisted to Iowans a decade ago — or, conversely, the constitutional rabbit hole one plunges down regarding the Supreme Court’s take on corporate personhood versus protected citizenry.
Nevertheless, corporations are composed of people who define them and certainly give them their traits, quirks and all-important culture. Their top leadership consciously or unconsciously pens their “personality,” so to speak, and it’s clear more of their constituents are starting to crave that, especially in a distressingly divided world.
In other words, for all you C-suiters out there, now is the time to show where your company stands on today’s issues, what it’s doing about them and why it’s different from others. Your customers demand it, your employees expect it and your role has evolved to encompass it. From equity to abortion, from climate change to gun violence, the lines between politics and business…
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