Alison Taylor
@followalisont.bsky.social
I teach @NYUStern, lots of other hats, even more opinions. Author of Higher Ground, published by Harvard Business Review Press, 2024.
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well, you do if there's a fucking wolf
Q: Was there any discussion to evacuate before it was too late?
RICE: What we don't want to do is cry wolf
RICE: What we don't want to do is cry wolf
July 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
well, you do if there's a fucking wolf
June 20, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Honestly why are you as a billionaire using the $20 mass affluent Whole Foods olive oil at all? You should have a grove of 300 year old heritage olive trees in Tuscany pressed exclusively by your twink slaves’ feet at that point.
dragging one of the most overrated tech titans on the planet into a multi-day social beef via olive oil snobbery is peak media performance imo
www.ft.com/content/b180...
www.ft.com/content/b180...
May 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Honestly why are you as a billionaire using the $20 mass affluent Whole Foods olive oil at all? You should have a grove of 300 year old heritage olive trees in Tuscany pressed exclusively by your twink slaves’ feet at that point.
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Our cover this week.
April 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Our cover this week.
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“We all saw what happened to Target.”
💥 BREAKING: Goldman Sachs shareholders voted today to reject two anti-DEI proposals, both by 98-2 percent. GS Board urged shareholders to vote to reject proposals. "We believe that diversity, including diversity of thought, experience and perspectives, is important to our commercial success."
April 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
“We all saw what happened to Target.”
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Everybody has already said but this really is a remarkable ruling. Reagan appointee basically begging the Trump admin to step back from the ledge.
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April 18, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Everybody has already said but this really is a remarkable ruling. Reagan appointee basically begging the Trump admin to step back from the ledge.
Delighted to be quoted here today
April 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Delighted to be quoted here today
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There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers.
Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.
Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.
April 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers.
Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.
Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.
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Trump Calmly Reminds Nation That Desire The Root Of All Suffering
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April 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Trump Calmly Reminds Nation That Desire The Root Of All Suffering
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Take that, nerd! We don't want to fund your woke Marxist research on "relieving stress and anxiety in adolescents." Children are the future and the future should feel bad.
After 25 years, NIH funding ends for child educator at Duquesne University
‘It’s bigger than the science.’
www.post-gazette.com
March 31, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Take that, nerd! We don't want to fund your woke Marxist research on "relieving stress and anxiety in adolescents." Children are the future and the future should feel bad.
Unusually nuanced and thoughtful on the current state of corporate climate action, with many thoughts from me
www.thetimes.com/article/eac1...
www.thetimes.com/article/eac1...
The rise of greenhushing: embrace ESG, but don’t talk about it
Amid the Donald Trump-fuelled backlash against ESG, corporations don’t like to shout about net zero. But on the quiet, they are taking it very seriously
www.thetimes.com
March 31, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Unusually nuanced and thoughtful on the current state of corporate climate action, with many thoughts from me
www.thetimes.com/article/eac1...
www.thetimes.com/article/eac1...
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Last was "Higher Ground" by @followalisont.bsky.social (👋), who merges academic research w/real world expertise to create an extremely useful and timely book that everyone in management and corporate governance needs to read. Highly recommend
Full review: bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/... (5/5)
Full review: bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/... (5/5)
Higher Ground: How Business Can Do the Right Thing in a Turbulent World ^ 10558
Buy books, tools, case studies, and articles on leadership, strategy, innovation, and other business and management topics
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March 10, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Last was "Higher Ground" by @followalisont.bsky.social (👋), who merges academic research w/real world expertise to create an extremely useful and timely book that everyone in management and corporate governance needs to read. Highly recommend
Full review: bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/... (5/5)
Full review: bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/... (5/5)
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“Bezos has now created a situation in which essentially everything published on the opinion pages of the Post will be seen as broadly representative of his personal views. I can’t imagine why any proprietor would want to leave that impression. Did Bezos really think this through?”
How to think about Bezos’s latest strange move at the Washington Post. This week’s Second Rough Draft newsletter
open.substack.com/pub/dicktofe...
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The Opinions of Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post
Making sense of the latest surprise
open.substack.com
March 6, 2025 at 1:53 PM
“Bezos has now created a situation in which essentially everything published on the opinion pages of the Post will be seen as broadly representative of his personal views. I can’t imagine why any proprietor would want to leave that impression. Did Bezos really think this through?”
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What a front cover...
March 6, 2025 at 11:09 AM
What a front cover...
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Also wrote about Jeff Bezos' nonsense with the WaPo's Opinion section, and just how fundamentally stupid it is.
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/27/j...
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/27/j...
Jeff Bezos Frees WaPo Opinion Pages Of The Personal Liberty Of Expressing Their Opinion
Look, when Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post a decade ago, people worried that a billionaire owner might interfere with the paper’s editorial independence. For years, those fears seemed o…
www.techdirt.com
February 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Also wrote about Jeff Bezos' nonsense with the WaPo's Opinion section, and just how fundamentally stupid it is.
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/27/j...
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/27/j...
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👉 "In the 2010s, there was a sense that #SiliconValley was different, it had a rarefied culture. Now you’re just like any other union-busting top-down conglomerate." @followalisont.bsky.social @nyusterncbhr.bsky.social
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Tech titans stand with Donald Trump to kill off activism in Silicon Valley
Fearful employees have done little to protest against the rightward shift of leaders such as Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg
www.ft.com
February 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
👉 "In the 2010s, there was a sense that #SiliconValley was different, it had a rarefied culture. Now you’re just like any other union-busting top-down conglomerate." @followalisont.bsky.social @nyusterncbhr.bsky.social
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www.ft.com/content/6bad...
Some days I'm still proud to be British
February 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Some days I'm still proud to be British
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Love this from Denmark
February 25, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Love this from Denmark
“In the 2010s, there was a sense that Silicon Valley was different, it had a rarefied culture,” said Alison Taylor, a clinical associate professor at NYU. “Now you’re just like any other union-busting top-down conglomerate.”
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www.ft.com/content/6bad...
Tech titans stand with Donald Trump to kill off activism in Silicon Valley
Fearful employees have done little to protest against the rightward shift of leaders such as Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg
www.ft.com
February 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
“In the 2010s, there was a sense that Silicon Valley was different, it had a rarefied culture,” said Alison Taylor, a clinical associate professor at NYU. “Now you’re just like any other union-busting top-down conglomerate.”
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www.ft.com/content/6bad...
"What we are seeing under way is not so much the death of diversity, but the decisive collapse of the myth that your career can mirror your values, or that your job might love you back".
www.thebanker.com/content/1800...
www.thebanker.com/content/1800...
How Wall Street wound up the last bastion of support for diversity
Personal sacrifices and work ethic are far more fundamental drivers of banking culture than diversity goals
www.thebanker.com
February 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"What we are seeing under way is not so much the death of diversity, but the decisive collapse of the myth that your career can mirror your values, or that your job might love you back".
www.thebanker.com/content/1800...
www.thebanker.com/content/1800...