MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Business, Politics, and Cultivating Resilience

Business doesn’t operate in a vacuum. Sometimes external conditions exert a much larger force than usual. That is certainly the case today, with political and environmental change, economic uncertainty, regional conflicts, and population displacement happening around the world. As I write this, it’s just a few months before a highly consequential U.S. presidential election.

A newsletter recently landed in my inbox that claimed to offer “everything leaders need to know about creating guidelines around political discourse at work, encouraging civic engagement, and combating election stress in your workforce.” The variety of tools it listed for putting ideas into action included templates, discussion guides, checklists, and the like.

“Election stress” seems like a strange thing for business leaders and managers to worry about, but it makes sense in a time of such division. And it’s certainly not the only source of stress that you and your teams are confronting today.

About the Author

Abbie Lundberg (@abbielundberg) is editor in chief at MIT Sloan Management Review.

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