Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story is one of the most important films of the year (seriously).
If only he knew the definition of “capitalism”…
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”
I’ve experienced this firsthand, as likely have you. How many times have we seen a “great idea” for our organization get buried… somehow, mysteriously, and at the end reflect back on the process only to realize we have no idea how exactly it died?
Short answer: the culture killed it.
It seems like the right thing is to focus more time on making our weaknesses better. After all, this is what we are taught our whole lives in school–if I suck at math, I spend the most time working on that subject.
But we are wrong. Focusing on our weaknesses is usually completely futile.
Let’s…
Last night the headline of The Huffington Post, in characteristic bold red letters, said:
CALIFORNIA: America’s first failed state?
California has the eighth largest economy in the entire world. So what could have gone so catastrophically wrong?
You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the industrious out of it.
You don’t multiply wealth by dividing it.
Government cannot give anything to anybody that it doesn’t first take from somebody else.