Speaking of Business and Leadership

Today I read a LinkedIn post by a long-term friend and colleague who has chosen to stick to her lane of writing and posting about business and leadership.

Her post today was about the starvation in Gaza – the deliberately created starvation. She commented that she needed to deviate from her usual posts to address this. 

I replied to her post. To speak up against the horror, and to speak out against the powers that literally break you for speaking, is leadership.

If leadership is not about courage, daring to care, acting in the face of immorality, choosing integrity, then what is it? 

And business – business is deeply complicit and partnering with the crimes we read about every day. The big ones – Google, Microsoft – are steeped in blood. See this article. (https://substack.com/home/post/p-169174940) The list of businesses supporting genocide and horror is long.

All of my work is about business for good. Not just good for some. Good for all. Syntropic – leaving everything better. 

All of my work is about leadership. Real leadership. Leadership that chooses, every single time, every single time, to act with integrity, to be willing to pay the price for acting with integrity. 

In our current world, we need leaders like this and businesses that refuse to put a single human, a single creature, or our Earth and our future at risk in their scramble to make money or achieve fame. 

Not speaking up, not protesting, not divesting is not leadership.

The leaders I look to right in this moment, now, are not lurking in ivory towers; they are on the streets and in communities.

And the businesses for good? So few of them. So very few. 

Syntropic World is out to change this scenario, one leader, one business at a time. For as long as it takes.  

Photo July 26th 2025, Article republished July 26th 2025