The Shifting Relationship Between Business and the U.S. Government

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Alison, you know, I spend a lot of my job now speaking with C-suite executives and other leaders. And there are things that they'll talk about in the press, that they'll talk about publicly. And then there are the closed door conversations that they have about the state of the world and about the role of business in it. Those conversations are often very different. Today we're going to be looking at the relationship between the business community and the government, how that seems to have changed in the U.S., and how business leaders can best handle this new environment.

Yeah, I'm incredibly interested in learning more about how business leaders think about the world today because so much of the uncertainty that we talk about really does come down to these political decisions, whether that's changing tariffs and trade wars or military action that's affecting every kind of business, not just the obvious ones. And I think it's really hard for leaders right now to figure out if when How to react and even weigh in. Yeah, so we look, we want to go big picture today and look specifically at how leaders are and how maybe they should be navigating these waters.

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