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The United States Is A Safe Harbor.

It Is A Myth That Higher Taxes Lead To Less Demand And Slower Growth. In The First Three Decades After World War Ii, Us Top Tax Rates On The Wealthy Were Never Below 70 Percent.

One Of The Most Difficult Things Is To Get Truthful People. Nobody Can Manage Well If They Don't Have A Lot Of Mirrors Around Them That Are Honest, That Tell Them What They're Doing Is Wrong Or Wrongheaded Or Misconceived. And In Every Large Bureaucracy On Earth, Most People Are Afraid To Tell The Boss The Truth.

Corporations Don't Create Jobs, Customers Do. So When All The Economic Gains Go To The Top, As They're Doing Now, The Vast Majority Of Americans Don't Have Enough Purchasing Power To Buy The Things Corporations Want To Sell - Which Means Businesses Stop Creating Enough Jobs.

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.