Corporate leaders today are stuck between a rock and a hard place. Nobody can see events playing out in the streets in Minnesota and elsewhere and not be moved in some way. At the same time, they have a fiduciary responsibility to act in the best interests of their stakeholders, regardless of their personal feelings. 

I know this dilemma because I experienced it myself. In 2004, I was managing Ukraine’s leading news organization during the Orange Revolution, the third in a series of nonviolent uprisings known as the color revolutions that overwhelmed autocrats in Serbia and then the Georgian Republic before arriving in Kyiv.

As I explained in my book,........

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