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My daughter Tory, her husband Dan and I spent the weekend in and around Richmond, VA to study the Seven Days Battles in 1862 and Cold Harbor in 1864.

The message is clear: Business must step up to close its trust deficit.

The pandemic has done immense and irreparable harm around the globe. But if we learn the right lessons, we can build back a society that works better for everyone — a society that is healthier, safer, and more resilient.

On January 6, 2021, I could not believe what I was seeing and hearing. Before wall-to-wall coverage spread across our televisions and computer screens, I was receiving texts from family and friends in the area, worried about what was to come.

If you care what people think, and most politicians do, this is a miserable time to be pursuing a career in politics.

Layer together the financial crash and great recession, the fallout of austerity measures on people and communities, the division unleashed by the Brexit referendum, and the tragedy and hardship created by Covid-19, it is perhaps little wonder that politicians and journalists find themselves in an environment of low public trust.

In a year marked by a brutal pandemic, a global outcry over systemic racism, growing income inequality and a looming climate crisis, business leaders—of companies both large and small—acted with agility and adaptability to steer their companies and employees through the greatest crisis of the last half-century.

The behavior of business in Beckert’s Empire of Cotton can be contrasted with the actions of the Business Roundtable last week when it released a report offering a detailed plan to combat systemic racism, making business a force behind societal change.