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When Top Executives Get Huge Pay Hikes At The Same Time As Middle-level And Hourly Workers Lose Their Jobs And Retirement Savings, Or Have To Accept Negligible Pay Raises And Cuts In Health And Pension Benefits, Company Morale Plummets. I Hear It All The Time From Employees: This Company, They Say, Is Being Run Only For The Benefit Of The People At The Top. So Why Should We Put In Extra Effort, Commit Extra Hours, Take On Extra Responsibilities? We'll Do The Minimum, Even Cut Corners. This Is Often The Death Knell Of A Company.

Most Americans Are On A Downward Escalator. Median Wage In The United States, Adjusted For Inflation, Keeps On Dropping.

We Are Creating A One Size Fits All System That Needlessly Brands Many Young People As Failures, When They Might Thrive If Offered A Different Education Whose Progress Was Measured Differently. Paradoxically We're Embracing Standardized Tests Just When The Economy Is Eliminating Standardized Jobs.

The Path To Success Used To Be Up And Through An Organization. Now The Path To Success Is Increasingly Through Self-promotion.

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.