A Power Shift

I opened the summit with Michelle Williams's Emmy speech, in which she credited bosses who never assumed they knew her needs better than she did. Then I told the story of my own last name, and the afternoon I spent with two linguists from Webster's to settle how it should be pronounced. My argument was simple. The business no longer defines the individual; the individual defines the business, and leaders still clinging to standardization are practicing substitution instead of evolution.