Education Is Not The Only Answer And

I Think Re-engineering Or Restructuring Or Downsizing Or Rightsizing Or Whatever You Want To Call It, It's Basically Firing, Has Gone Way Too Far. Employees, As I've Talked To Them Across The Country, Feel That They Are Not Respected, They Are Not Valued, They Are Worried About Their Jobs. They Simply Feel That The Company Is No Longer Loyal To Them. Why Should They Be Loyal To The Company, They Ask Me. Why Should I Go The Extra Mile? Why Should I Care?

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 Ask, "could We Have An Honest Discussion About Earnings Insurance?" I Think We Could, If People Understood That The Alternative Was To Build Up A Backlash Against Global Capital, Against Free Trade, Against Technological Change.

I Think The Obama Administration Has Done A Lousy Job Marketing And Selling And Explaining This Entire Thing. And, As A Result, All Of These Right-wing Front Organizations Financed By The Koch Brothers, Are Blanketing The Airwaves With Lies About Obamacare. And People Are Scared.

Any Bank That Is Too Big To Fail Is Too Big. Period.