{"id":3119,"date":"2020-06-15T21:21:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/?p=3119"},"modified":"2020-07-30T15:30:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T15:30:17","slug":"how-entrepreneurs-can-lead-the-way-to-social-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/how-entrepreneurs-can-lead-the-way-to-social-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"How Entrepreneurs Can Lead The Way To Social Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police in the midst of a deadly pandemic and widespread unemployment has galvanized millions of people to risk infection to protest systemic racism. So many, in fact, that this could well be a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2020\/06\/10\/whats-different-about-this-moment-primarily-number-americans-supporting-protests-over-racial-injustice\/\" target=\"_blank\">pivotal moment<\/a>\u00a0in America\u2019s troubled racial history. For business leaders and their companies, it means an unprecedented reckoning on social justice.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not everyone in your company is likely to agree on what to do next. And even if they did,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/dereklidow\/2019\/01\/22\/what-entrepreneurs-can-learn-about-undemocratic-decision-making-from-bruce-springsteen\/#22b350c848ba\">consensus is no way to run a startup<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0As the leader, your priorities, in descending order, are your customers, your company, your team, your suppliers and, last of all, you. That\u2019s what you signed up for when you launched your enterprise.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police in the midst of a deadly pandemic and widespread unemployment has galvanized millions of people to risk infection to protest systemic racism. So many, in fact, that this could well be a\u00a0pivotal moment\u00a0in America\u2019s troubled racial history. For business leaders and their companies,&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}