You Can't Inspire People If You Are

When Corporations Get Special Handouts From The Government, Subsidies And Tax Breaks, It Costs You. It Means You Have To Pay More In Taxes To Make Up For These Hidden Expenses, And Government Has Less Money For Good Schools And Roads, Medicare And National Defense And Everything Else You Need.

America Has Become The Most Unequal Society Among Advanced Countries, And Rich People Are Now Free To Spend As Much Money On Political Campaigns As They Wish.

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.

I Started In The Law; And The Study Of Law, When It Precedes The Study Of Economics, Gives You A Set Of Foundation Principles About How Human Beings Interact. Economics Is Very Useful, And I Studied Economics In Graduate School. But Without Understanding The Social And Organizational Context Of Economics, It Becomes A Theory Without Any Groundwork.

I Think The Big Problem Is You Have A Vicious Cycle Of Wealth And Power In America That`s Just Gotten Completely Out Of Control And You`ve Seen It In Politics.