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The Rich Would Do Better With A Smaller Share Of A Rapidly Growing Economy Then They're Doing Now With A Large Share Of An Economy That Is Barely Growing At All.

The Intellectual Equipment Needed For The Job Of The Future Is An Ability To Define Problems, Quickly Assimilate Relevant Data, Conceptualize And Reorganize The Information, Make Deductive And Inductive Leaps With It, Ask Hard Questions About It, Discuss Findings With Colleagues, Work Collaboratively To Find Solutions And Then Convince Others.

I Think Re-engineering Or Restructuring Or Downsizing Or Rightsizing Or Whatever You Want To Call It, It's Basically Firing, Has Gone Way Too Far. Employees, As I've Talked To Them Across The Country, Feel That They Are Not Respected, They Are Not Valued, They Are Worried About Their Jobs. They Simply Feel That The Company Is No Longer Loyal To Them. Why Should They Be Loyal To The Company, They Ask Me. Why Should I Go The Extra Mile? Why Should I Care?

The Core Corporation Is ... Increasingly A Façade, Behind Which Teems An Array Of Decentralized Groups And Subgroups Continuously Contracting With Similarly Diffuse Working Units All Over The World.

Most Americans Stopped Looking At What Was Happening Through A Variety Of Coping Mechanisms - Starting With Women Entering Paid Work And Then Everyone Working Longer Hours And Using Their Homes For Raising Equity And Generating More Money Through Debt. The Typical Household Basically Staved Off The Day Of Reckoning.