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Business school professors share the books and articles that changed their outlook.

Henry Mintzberg, John Cleghorn professor of management studies, McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management

I love to read books, and usually I have one that I am reading but I haven’t even given myself a chance to do that recently because of what has been going on with the US election. Instead, I have been consumed by the commentary in The New York Times international edition. 

My concern is that the world is totally out of whack and people don’t realise why and as a consequence they are grasping at anything. In that way I don’t think the supporters of [Bernie] Sanders and the supporters of [Donald] Trump are that different.

I did read Indignez-vous by Stéphane Hessel. The reason that I picked that out is the format. It is tiny. It is literally published as a pamphlet. It indicates some of people’s concerns at the moment that may have led to Trump getting elected, and calls for people to speak out.

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