Gillian Tett

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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson

“I am reading a brilliant book called Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson, which should be required reading for anyone who wants to make sense of the BlackLivesMatter movement and challenge themselves (and their own organization) to respond appropriately. It argues that caste—not skin color—is the best way to make sense of the horrors of racism in America, since even well-meaning people accept caste structures implicitly in their lives, unless challenged.”

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Acknowledgments

It takes a village to curate amazing lists from this rather busy group of leaders from all over the world. We would like to thank Nikhil Deogun, Mitra S. Kalita, Gabriella Stern, Rebecca Lowell Edwards, Steve Lipin, Sara Blask, Karen Wickre, Ailish Campbell, Anya Schiffrin, Tom Weber, Shernaz Daver, Jose Zamora, and Judi Mackey for their help.

Within McKinsey Global Publishing, Mike Borruso, Heather Byer, Philip Mathew, Louis Vizzi, Dan Redding, and Torea Frey were instrumental in making this year’s list come alive.

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