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Here's Why I Think The Public Service Jobs Are Almost Unavoidable: When We Have Downturns In The Economy - And We Will, For We Haven't Repealed The Business Cycle - Unemployment Will Build, Yet We No Longer Have Any Safety Net. What Are We Going To Do? Unless We Decide To Pull Out All The Stops And Lower Interest Rates Immediately And Risk Turning A Recession Into Wild Inflation, We're Going To Have To Figure Out Some Way Of Providing Some More, Not Job Security, But Employment Security.

We're Now Moving Toward A Radically Different Economy. You Absolutely Can't Have A Distribution Oligopoly. The New Oligopolies - And I Think There Will Be New Oligopolies - Will Be Oligopolies Of Trustworthiness. Microsoft, Amazon, Schwab, And Other Brands Will Dominate Psychic Space, Not Shelf Space.

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.

The Only Way America Can Reduce The Long-term Budget Deficit, Maintain Vital Services, Protect Social Security And Medicare, Invest More In Education And Infrastructure, And Not Raise Taxes On The Working Middle Class Is By Raising Taxes On The Super Rich.

You Have To Keep A Sense Of Humor About Yourself, More Than Anything Else. You've Got To Take The Issues Very Seriously, But You Can't Take Yourself Too Seriously. And Washington Is A City In Which Everybody Takes Themselves Extraordinarily Seriously.