Brian R. Spisak

In this fascinating article, Brian Spisak, a Research Associate at Harvard’s National Preparedness Leadership Initiative, looks at leadership through the lens of "niche construction" — a biological process by which an organism alters its own environment. Spisak argues that current attention to how business impacts social concerns indicates that society is returning to a more group-level, communalistic mindset. If that is true, then leaders must be proactive in adopting pro-social behaviors.