Every Company Needs a Political Strategy Today

Five principles will help business leaders take decisive action when fast-changing laws and regulations conflict with stakeholder values.

What if your company’s health insurance plan (or your hiring and training practices, or your policy on guns in the workplace) violates a new state law? And what if your efforts to comply with fast-changing laws and regulations are met with condemnations from employees, customers, and investors?

These were not questions that business leaders were asking themselves even a few years ago.

Now they must. Worse, such questions are certain to increase in both quantity and importance. You need a political strategy — ...

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