What We Really Need To Understand Here

In Journalism, There Are Only Two Stories - "oh, The Wonder Of It," And "oh, The Shame Of It."

We Reform The System. We Save Capitalism From Its Own Excesses.

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 Was There In Washington In The `90s. It Was Pretty Bad Then. It`s Much Worse Now [in 2015]. And That Vicious Cycle Is You`ve Got Again Big Corporations, Executives, Wall Street, Very Wealthy Individuals In Both Parties Who Are Calling The Shots.

I Wish It Were Simply A Nightmare, But I Think That Any Reasonable Person Watching American Politics Would Come To The Conclusion That A Second Bush Administration Would In Fact Incorporate A More Radicalized Version Of What We've Seen In The First Administration.