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Successful businesses need proactive leadership – and so does Congress

  • Written by Thomas Bateman, Professor of Management, University of Virginia
Congress could learn a thing or two about acting proactively from Elon Musk, seen here with his Dragon space capsule.AP Photo/Jae C. Hong

Imagine you’re speeding along on a highway. Suddenly, the traffic ahead of you slows, forcing you to hit the breaks. Eventually you arrive at the source of the bottleneck: a mattress lying in the right...

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