There Is A Crisis Of Public Morality.

We Can't Have Extraordinary Dynamism, Innovation, And Change In The Economy And Expect To Have Predictability And Stability In Our Personal Lives. It's Not As If There Are These Big, Giant Institutions Existing Between Us And The Economy. In Fact, These Institutions Have Become Tissue-thin. There Is No Mediation Anymore. We Are The Economy; The Economy Is Us.

Anyone Believing The Tpp Is Good For Americans Take Note: The Foreign Subsidiaries Of U.s.-based Corporations Could Just As Easily Challenge Any U.s. Government Regulation They Claim Unfairly Diminishes Their Profits - Say, A Regulation Protecting American Consumers From Unsafe Products Or Unhealthy Foods, Investors From Fraudulent Securities Or Predatory Lending, Workers From Unsafe Working Conditions, Taxpayers From Another Bailout Of Wall Street, Or The Environment From Toxic Emissions.

I Think That In Politics, When People Want To Discredit A Particular Position, They Say, "oh, They Are Liberals," Or "they Are Conservatives; We Are Centrists." Everybody Wants To Be A Centrist.

It's Almost As If We Have Two Lobes In Our Brain. There's The Consumer And Investor Mode, And We're Doing Better And Better At That Lobe. But At The Producer And Seller Mode, We Have To Work Harder And Harder. And The Better We Do As Consumers And Investors - The Easier It Is For Us To Choose Something Better, To Exit Every Commercial Relationship - The Harder We Have To Work As Sellers And Producers. One Follows From The Other.

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.