A Lot Of Attention Has Been Going

The Path To Success Used To Be Up And Through An Organization. Now The Path To Success Is Increasingly Through Self-promotion.

I Was There In Washington In The `90s. It Was Pretty Bad Then. It`s Much Worse Now [in 2015]. And That Vicious Cycle Is You`ve Got Again Big Corporations, Executives, Wall Street, Very Wealthy Individuals In Both Parties Who Are Calling The Shots.

I Wish It Were Simply A Nightmare, But I Think That Any Reasonable Person Watching American Politics Would Come To The Conclusion That A Second Bush Administration Would In Fact Incorporate A More Radicalized Version Of What We've Seen In The First Administration.

What Characteristics Are Most Important In Creative Workers? One Quality You Need Is Inventiveness. You Need To Be Able To Take Whatever Product Or Service You Are Providing And Figure Out Ways Of Making It Better, Faster, Cheaper. The Other Quality Is Empathy And Insight Into What People Might Want, Even Though They Don't Even Know Their Wants, Probably Because There's No Product Or Service To Test Their Wants.

Higher Education Isn't Just A Personal Investment. It's A Public Good That Pays Off In A More Competitive Workforce And Better-informed And Engaged Citizens. Every Year, We Spend Nearly $100 Billion On Corporate Welfare, And More Than $500 Billion On Defense Spending. Surely Ensuring The Next Generation Can Compete In The Global Economy Is At Least As Important As Subsidies For Big Business And Military Adventures Around The Globe. In Fact, I Think We Can And Must Go Further - Not Just Making Public Higher Education Tuition-free, But Reinventing Education In America As We Know It.