If You Give Up On Democracy, You

America's Real Business Leaders Understand Unless Or Until The Middle Class Regains Its Footing And Its Faith, Capitalism Remains Vulnerable.

To Be A Skilled Politician, You Have To Be Genuine. To Really Make It Work, You Have To Love People. You Have To Love The Contact, You Have To Love The Energy, You've Gotta Love Inspiring People And Getting Their Adulation In Return. You Can't Separate What's Genuine From What Is Necessary.

We Used To Be So Proud That Our Country Offered Far More Economic Opportunities Than The Feudal System In Great Britain, With Its Royal Family, Princesses And Dukes. But Social Mobility In The Uk Is Higher Than In The Us. Our Social Rift Is As Big As It Was In The 1920s.

There's A Great Debate Going On, You Know, On Whether We're Moving Toward A System Of Giant Oligopolies Or A System Of Multiples Of Small Businesses. Which Is It? I Think It's Both. In Every Sector Of The Economy, We Have Giant Brands That Are Trustworthy Guides To What's Good, And Then A Vast Number Of Small Groups, Many Of Them Project-based, Sometimes Folding And Re-creating, That Are Offering Products And Services Through Those Giant Global Brands.

The Core Corporation Is ... Increasingly A Façade, Behind Which Teems An Array Of Decentralized Groups And Subgroups Continuously Contracting With Similarly Diffuse Working Units All Over The World.