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Cutting Taxes Is Not Bad. But If You Cut Taxes On The Wealthy, Which Is What They Wanted To Do, You're Not Helping People Who Need Better Schools And Better Infrastructure And Healthcare. You're Basically Robbing The Middle Class And The Poor To Provide Tax Cuts To The Rich.

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 Stopped Looking At What Was Happening Through A Variety Of Coping Mechanisms - Starting With Women Entering Paid Work And Then Everyone Working Longer Hours And Using Their Homes For Raising Equity And Generating More Money Through Debt. The Typical Household Basically Staved Off The Day Of Reckoning.

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.

Being Critical Of The Nation Is A Far Cry From Being Unpatriotic Or Anti-american. In Fact, Most Social Criticism . . . Is Based On A Love Of America's Ideals And A Concern We're Not Living Up To Them.