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What Characteristics Are Most Important In Creative Workers? One Quality You Need Is Inventiveness. You Need To Be Able To Take Whatever Product Or Service You Are Providing And Figure Out Ways Of Making It Better, Faster, Cheaper. The Other Quality Is Empathy And Insight Into What People Might Want, Even Though They Don't Even Know Their Wants, Probably Because There's No Product Or Service To Test Their Wants.

You Have To Keep A Sense Of Humor About Yourself, More Than Anything Else. You've Got To Take The Issues Very Seriously, But You Can't Take Yourself Too Seriously. And Washington Is A City In Which Everybody Takes Themselves Extraordinarily Seriously.

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.

The Industrial Leader Of The 20th Century Was A System-builder. He Was A Visionary In Terms Of What Could Be Built; Got The Capital Together; Certainly Convinced Investors That It Was Possible; And Then Ran A High-volume Production System That Would Spew Out A Vast Array Of Almost Identical Goods And Services. They Would Be Changed From Time To Time; There Was Research And Development, To Be Sure. But The System Was Built Around Production, Not Innovation.

If Leadership Is About Anything, It's About Leading. Not Leading People Back To Where They Already Are, Because They Don't Need That. They're Already There.