Perhaps I'm the odd man out, but I care less about who wins the Presidency, and what party they belong to, than I do about the person winning being someone who's not beholden to big business. Ditto for Congressional representatives.
Every election season we hear about "wanting change." Well the change I want is elected leaders having yours and my interests first, that of our children and grandchildren second, small business third, American owned big business fourth. As far as I'm concerned, everyone and everything else shouldn't count.
As a management consultant who for the past decade has worked more in the international sphere than in the domestic U.S. one, it's gradually become more and more apparent to me that what's good for big business in America is not necessarily what's good for American citizens, that is good for people. I'm not alone in beginning to recognize this:
Why? Well, largely because life's been good to me; it started out pretty well and has only gotten better, to the point that only a major, national catastrophe, something more major than the 2008 financial crisis, is going to make me or my family have a rough way to go. Call that luck; call it whatever you want. I doubt that most other "average Americans" like me can say the same thing. What I can say, however, is that if most average Americans don't soon demand of their elected leaders that their concerns are put directly ahead of those of businesses, the American Dream will never come to fruition for them.
So the change I want to see is one where business and governments server people. What we have not is people serving the interests of big business and government.
All the best.
Every election season we hear about "wanting change." Well the change I want is elected leaders having yours and my interests first, that of our children and grandchildren second, small business third, American owned big business fourth. As far as I'm concerned, everyone and everything else shouldn't count.
As a management consultant who for the past decade has worked more in the international sphere than in the domestic U.S. one, it's gradually become more and more apparent to me that what's good for big business in America is not necessarily what's good for American citizens, that is good for people. I'm not alone in beginning to recognize this:
- Harvard Business Review: "...America’s Corporate Elite is increasingly seen as betraying the American Dream, not building it. " (http://ift.tt/1hEL1Zn)
- Kathleen Reardon, Professor Emeritus, Marshall School, USC: "It's time to stop listening to endless repetition of the narrow-minded view that rules and laws should not be changed if they pose even a whiff of difficulty for business. More often than not, it's a bogus argument and a selfish one at that. American businesses that inflexible are soon out of business anyway, and we're all the better for it." (http://ift.tt/1hEL1sn)
- Vijay Govindarajan, Tuck School professor and Harvard Business School Fellow
Mark Goulston, business consultant, author and psychiatrist
Chris Trimble, business consultant, Executive Director of the William F. Achtmeyer Center for Global Leadership, Tuck School of Business (2000-10)
"One company's annual report described how their newly launched medical device led to a radical improvement in post-surgical outcomes -- but only to explain the company's improving business performance. Apparently, medical breakthroughs have nothing to do with social performance." (http://ift.tt/1hEL1sp)
Why? Well, largely because life's been good to me; it started out pretty well and has only gotten better, to the point that only a major, national catastrophe, something more major than the 2008 financial crisis, is going to make me or my family have a rough way to go. Call that luck; call it whatever you want. I doubt that most other "average Americans" like me can say the same thing. What I can say, however, is that if most average Americans don't soon demand of their elected leaders that their concerns are put directly ahead of those of businesses, the American Dream will never come to fruition for them.
So the change I want to see is one where business and governments server people. What we have not is people serving the interests of big business and government.
All the best.
Democrat or Republican...I don't care for the most part
0 commentaires:
Enregistrer un commentaire