The United States Is A Safe Harbor.

More And More, Leadership, Whether It's Profit Or Nonprofit, Is About Recruiting And Keeping Talented People. That's The Biggest Challenge. Yes, You've Got To Create Systems That Will Enable People Easily To Innovate Continuously; You've Got To Be A System-builder. But Finding And Keeping Geeks And Shrinks Is The Biggest Challenge. That Means Leaders Have Got To Be Salespeople, They've Got To Be Recruiters, And They've Got To Be Actively Able To Understand And Keep The Talent They Have. Leadership Is Courtship. That's What It's Becoming.

I Think It's Hard To Have A Brand Portal And An Economy Of Trustworthiness In One Of Them That Sloshes Over Into Another. But Saying That There Will Be Only A Limited Number Of These Giant Brand Portals Doesn't Mean A Limited Number Of Companies; It Doesn't Mean That Everybody's Going To Be Working For These Companies. Quite The Opposite. Most Of Us Will Be Working Through Much Smaller Entities That Simply Use These Portals As Vehicles For Getting And Identifying Customers.

The Faith That Anyone Could Move From Rags To Riches - With Enough Guts And Gumption, Hard Work And Nose To The Grindstone - Was Once At The Core Of The American Dream.

In Washington, It's Dog Eat Dog. In Academia, It's Exactly The Opposite.

Here's Why I Think The Public Service Jobs Are Almost Unavoidable: When We Have Downturns In The Economy - And We Will, For We Haven't Repealed The Business Cycle - Unemployment Will Build, Yet We No Longer Have Any Safety Net. What Are We Going To Do? Unless We Decide To Pull Out All The Stops And Lower Interest Rates Immediately And Risk Turning A Recession Into Wild Inflation, We're Going To Have To Figure Out Some Way Of Providing Some More, Not Job Security, But Employment Security.