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Yet, one wonders whether leading corporations results in great preparation for the world of politics and policy making. The obvious pitfalls and challenges have been illustrated by a number of the business leaders who have taken the lead in government. Tillerson was trained to understand operational efficiency from the standpoint of engineering. Second, unlike running a business, a model of leadership based on meeting the interests of a small list of stakeholders, policy leadership involves building a coalition of often competing interests while serving the needs of a large number of constituents. After making their announcement, the coalition lagged in finding a leader and rounding up additional support among the fractious constituencies in health care policy and politics. A third challenge for transitioning business leaders involves the notion of risk. Risk is not a value in policy, however. Certainly, the often-cited poster child of the American CEO politician is former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has managed to avoid most of these pitfalls. His leadership in New York City, while not without critics, was widely considered a success. D. Christopher Kayes is a professor of management at the George Washington University School of Business.

NEW YORK — Howard Schultz sounds a lot like a guy running for office. The outgoing Starbucks Corp. chairman — who has thrust the coffee chain into thorny social issues in recent years and took thinly veiled jabs at President Trump during the 2016 election season — laid out a centrist vision for the United States during a television appearance on Tuesday, adding to speculation that he’ll mount a run for the White House in 2020. The Trump administration’s tax cut was “reckless” in the context of rising national debt, he said on CNBC, while also knocking the “vitriolic behavior” from the White House. Schultz raised concerns about the brewing trade battle with China and called for a ideology-free approach to tackling the issues facing the United States. “We need to do things that restore the promise of the country and our standing around the world,” Schultz said in an interview on CNBC. “We have to move the ideology out and do what’s best for the American people.” Schultz, 64, announced late Monday that he’d be stepping down from Starbucks later this month, fueling speculation that he’s mulling a political career. In the memo announcing his exit, Schultz said that he is “thinking about a range of options for myself, from philanthropy to public service, but I’m a long way from knowing what the future holds.” The entrepreneur turned a local Seattle coffee chain into a global giant with more than 28,000 stores in 77 countries. Schultz, who declined to be “nailed down” on a potential run for office, said the partisan unrest dividing the country is a serious threat. While criticizing the Trump administration, and the divisiveness that has infused US politics, Schultz also lamented that “some Democrats” had moved too far to the left. He said that tough problems like immigration reform, gun control, and spending on programs like Medicare and Medicaid need to be fixed with a centrist focus on domestic issues.

Starbucks is closing stores early for mandatory racial sensitivity training in response to a viral video showing Philadelphia police arresting two African-American men inside a Starbucks. Stephanie Ruhle and her panel, including one of the witnesses to the arrest, discuss…

Starbucks chairman and founder Howard Schultz tells CNN's Poppy Harlow the closing of 8,000 stores across the US for employee anti-bias training is the beginning of a new chapter for the company.

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Host of "United Shades of America" W. Kamau Bell talks to CNN's Don Lemon about recent arrests at a Philadelphia Starbucks and his personal experience being asked to leave a coffee shop in 2015 for being accused of harassing his…

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This is not, of course, the official Democratic position. And there are only three Democratic senators — Indiana’s Joe Donnelly, West Virginia’s Joe Manchin III and Pennsylvania’s Robert P. Casey Jr. — who have less than a 100 percent lifetime score from the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. In some places, surely. But Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report points out two complicating factors: First, the heterodoxies of local candidates seem to matter less and less in the way Americans make political choices. Increasingly, Walter says, “all politics is national.” Voters believe that support for any Democrat — even a more conservative Democrat — is actually support for the Nancy Pelosi-Chuck Schumer team. “Somewhere along the way,” argues Walter, “the idea that each district is different went by the wayside.” She calls this the “Starbucksization” of American politics. “No matter how you feel personally” on abortion, she says, “you have to vote to support the Democratic Party values.” Think on that a moment. Second, Walter points out that the political battlegrounds in American politics have shifted. The Democratic targets of opportunity in the 2018 midterms are generally not, for example, in the rural House districts of Georgia; they are in the upscale suburbs of Atlanta. This trend also narrows the ideological range of American politics.

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