You Gotta Be Both Flexible And Persistent.

Society Flourishes When People Think Entrepreneurally.

There Are Two Reasons [ Business People Are Not Publicly Anti-donald Trump ], One Is Well-intentioned, Which Is The Classic Kind Of American Notion. We Want To Be Inclusive, We Want To Have Our Shareholders, Our Employees, Our Customers, Whether They Are Democrat, Republican, Green Or Libertarian, To Feel Comfortable With How We're Doing Business. And So That Tends To Be Apolitical. People Say, "no, No, I Just Simply Shouldn't Get Involved In Politics."

One Of The Tests That I Frequently Use In An Interaction Is I Push On The Idea And What I'm Looking For Is Both Flexibility & Persistence.

If You Have To Conduct Layoffs, Which Is Always A Regrettable Thing, There's Kind Of Three Things That Are Very Important. One Is To Communicate Well With Your Employees In Order To Help Them Understand Why It Is You're Doing, And How. Second Is To Make Sure That The Employees Who Are Part Of The Go Forward, Understand Kind Of What Happened And Are Not Like The Ground Doesn't Keep Moving. It's Like, Okay, We Did That, We're Moving Forward, Here We Go. And Then For The Employees That You Unfortunately Have To Let Go, Try To Provide As Much Support For Them As Possible.

One Of The Great Strengths Of American Culture Is This Empowerment Of Individual, Is The Individual Being Able To Be Entrepreneurial, Create New Things. But You Create A Whole Group Of People To Make Great Companies. It's Employees And Investors And Customers And Partners. The Fabric Of Society, Of A Network Of Relations, Is Key To Being Successful.