Everyday People Who Led Momentous Change
[]
HBR IdeaCast
And three people that we’re going to talk about today—Frederick Douglas, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Rachel Carson—three people that you profile, three people who led social change, none of them are business people. And so, as the world grows more integrated, as the resources that business leaders command grow more pressingly urgent in other spheres, as just the firefighting of starting a business or maintaining fiduciary responsibility at a moment of great disruption increase, business leaders fully understand studying that they are also becoming leaders in the social realm and spokespeople for political and other environmental issues.