Inequality Is Bad For Everyone,

I Am Not An Economic Determinist. If I Were, I Would Throw Up My Hands; I Just Would Not Bother. I Think It's Wrong To Be An Economic Determinist. I Think It's Wrong To Simply Say, "well, Inevitably, If You're Poor, You're Going To Get A Lousy Education; If You're Lower-middle Class, The Cards Are Going To Be Stacked Against You, And You'll Probably Never Get Anywhere".

It's Almost As If We Have Two Lobes In Our Brain. There's The Consumer And Investor Mode, And We're Doing Better And Better At That Lobe. But At The Producer And Seller Mode, We Have To Work Harder And Harder. And The Better We Do As Consumers And Investors - The Easier It Is For Us To Choose Something Better, To Exit Every Commercial Relationship - The Harder We Have To Work As Sellers And Producers. One Follows From The Other.

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.

Terrorism Itself Is Not The Greatest Danger We Face.

We're The Richest Economy In The History Of The World. For The Majority Of Americans Not To Get The Benefits Of This Extraordinarily Prosperous Economy, There's Something Fundamentally Wrong.