The Silent Majority Really Is A Liberal

We Are Paying Teachers Who Are In Charge Of Our Human Capital, Arguably More Important Than Our Financial Capital, A Very Tiny Fraction Of What Wall Streeters Are Paid.

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.

You And I And Almost All Americans Are Beneficiaries Of The New Economy. But We Are Also Losing Parts Of Our Lives To The New Economy - Aspects Of Our Family Lives, Our Friendships, Our Communities, Ourselves.

Well-trained And Dedicated Employees Are The Only Sustainable Source Of Competitive Strength.

One Of The Things I Tell My Students Is That If You Want To Understand What's Been Going On And Also What Needs To Be Done, You've Got To Get Out Of The Blame Game. Some People On The Left Want To Blame The Rich And Corporations. Some People On The Right Want To Blame The Poor And Government. Either Of Those Frames Of Reference Gets You Nowhere And They Aren't Even Truthful. You've Got To Understand The Dynamic Itself.