We're The Richest Economy In The History

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.

A Smaller Government Reflecting The Needs Of The Middle Class And Poor Is Superior To A Big Government Reflecting The Needs Of The Privileged And Powerful.

The Core Corporation Is ... Increasingly A Façade, Behind Which Teems An Array Of Decentralized Groups And Subgroups Continuously Contracting With Similarly Diffuse Working Units All Over The World.

Technology Enables Consumers And Investors To Have Extraordinary Choice And Ease Of Switching, Which, In Turn, Stimulates Much Fiercer Competition Than Ever Before, Which, In Turn, Makes It Imperative For Every Institution To Innovate Like Mad. That Innovation Is Powering Our Economy These Days, And It Requires Companies To Find And Utilize Creative Workers. That's The Most Important Syllogism Going; Technology Is Embedded In That Syllogism, But It's Not As If We're Seeing These Productivity Gains Because Of The Technology.

The Intellectual Equipment Needed For The Job Of The Future Is An Ability To Define Problems, Quickly Assimilate Relevant Data, Conceptualize And Reorganize The Information, Make Deductive And Inductive Leaps With It, Ask Hard Questions About It, Discuss Findings With Colleagues, Work Collaboratively To Find Solutions And Then Convince Others.