You And I And Almost All Americans

The Problem Right Now Is Jobs. The Problem Right Now Is The Economy And Economic Growth.

I Don't Think That Our Problem, Our Jobs Problem, Is Fundamentally A Problem Of Trade. I Think It Has Much More To Do With The Fact That We Have Not Sufficiently Educated Our Population. We Have Not Got Out Of This Great Recession With Adequate Stimulus And Adequate Fiscal And Monetary Policies Over All.

We Are Paying Teachers Who Are In Charge Of Our Human Capital, Arguably More Important Than Our Financial Capital, A Very Tiny Fraction Of What Wall Streeters Are Paid.

Now We're In A Very Different Economy. Throughout The Late 1980s And 1990s American Management Started To Do The Right Things. There Was Extraordinary Investment In Technology. The Dominant Questions Now Are Less How To Do It Better, How To Manage Better, How To Make The Economy Better, Than How To Have Fuller And More Meaningful Lives. Because The Irony Is, Now That We've Come Through This Great Transition, Even Though Our Organizations And Our People Are Extraordinarily Productive, Many Feel That The Nonwork Side Of Life Is Very Thin.

We Are Now Enjoying The Liberation That Comes With Not Having To Be Organization Men And Women, And That's Fabulous. But There Are New Social Consequences Here Of Which We Need To Be Aware, And The Sale Of The Self And What That Entails For The Rest Of Our Lives Is Quite Sobering.