Let’s be honest: trust in government right now is somewhere between “car salesman” and “email from a Nigerian prince.” According to the latest Edelman Trust Barometer, the public’s faith in government is circling the drain, and even our churches are splitting themselves along red and blue pews. Institutions that once held the middle together have now turned into ideological tug-of-war ropes. Spoiler alert: no one’s winning.

But here’s the good news—yes, there is some: business leaders, particularly the folks running small and medium-sized companies, have a golden opportunity to do something radical.

Lead from the middle.

Not just in the quarterly results, shareholder-value kind of way. I mean really lead—by showing what integrity, clarity, and calm look like in a world that’s in

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