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I believe the most important thing Americans must do is to secure their economic well-being in an increasingly challenging, complex world. What I have written about all these years is the process of creating wealth, not for any one individual, but for the United States as a whole. Ever since I was a young correspondent witnessing the emergence of China after the country opened in 1979, I’ve believed we have to get more serious about creating wealth. I retain faith in the resiliency of the U.S. economy and the enterprise of American people. If Americans have the right strategies, we can once again create widespread wealth. Come with me on this journey.
Ford’s Mark Fields: A Classic Case of Failed Communications
May 23, 2017
I think the board of Ford Motor acted unfairly in sacking Mark Fields and replacing him with a 62-year-old furniture guy. But what’s done is done. What went wrong? As a long-time student of how CEOs communicate (see this book), Fields was not able to articulate a vision of how the company was incorporating the […]
How The ThinkPad Changed The World
May 16, 2017
Friends and family, I have a new book coming out next month and I’m asking everyone I know to pre-order it so the publisher gets the feeling that there is great demand for it. That will be crucial in deciding how many copies they print and how much promotion they give it. Go here to […]
Man Bites Dog: More Jobs Created in U.S. Than Offshored
May 16, 2017
These folks at the Reshoring Initiative are doing awfully important work. Reshoring Exceeded Offshoring in 2016: Policy Changes Needed to Maintain Momentum Kildeer, IL. May 15, 2017 — For the first time in decades, more manufacturing jobs are returning to the United States than are going offshore. The combined reshoring and foreign direct investment (FDI) […]
Jobs Summit Gains Momentum
May 16, 2017
Nereta Hosting National Summit Aimed at Creating Jobs in America’s Lagging Regions SCRANTON, Pa., May 16, 2017–The U.S. jobless rate may have dropped to 4.4 percent, the lowest level in more than a decade, but there are millions of Americans who cannot find jobs and employers report that they have millions of positions they cannot […]
A Most Important Summit on Job Creation
May 11, 2017
I’m delighted that I’ve been asked to co-organize and moderate a two-day National Job Creation Summit in Scranton June 14-15. I’ll present my own conclusions but my primary job is going to be to get others to cross-pollinate among these different fields: cluster development experts, workforce development people, entrepeneurs, university professors who teach entrepreneurship, technology […]
“Shareholder Activism” Has Gone Too Far at General Motors
May 10, 2017
We used to call them “greenmailers.” Guys like Carl Icahn. They would take positions in companies and then agitate for changes in management that would quickly make them more money. Then they would sell out. They were parasites. These days, the greenmailers have embraced the terminology of the shareholder activist movement. They talk about “unlocking […]
