Politics, business and LinkedIn

For those who argue that some posts here have turned LinkedIn into a version of Facebook, I'm going to go out on a limb and argue that politics and business -- and hence LinkedIn -- are linked at the hip and have been forever. That's my perspective as a newspaper reporter veteran.

Never more than now. All one has to do, in light of last week's insurrectionist uprising in Washington DC, is look at the fallout. You probably have heard about Google and Apple kicking Parler off their app stores for its role in fomenting violence.

Then there's news that big companies, the likes of Marriott, American Express, AT&T, JP Morgan Chase, Dow, American Airlines, Goldman Sachs, Coca-Cola, Ford, Comcast, etc., suspending political donations in light of what's happened.

Throw in the PGA removing its big golf tournament from the Trump-owned course in New Jersey, and Bill Belichek, the epitome of NFL coaching success for two decades, turning down the Medal of Freedom offered him by President Trump, and you have a trend that can't be ignored.

I'm no longer in career mode, and I don't have any crystal-career advise to those of you still toiling away in corporate America. Except that it behooves you to stay informed about the events of the day. And if your conscience compels you to speak up about injustice, do so. Your country will be better for that.