UNCONVENTIONAL THINKING BLOG

In real life, things don’t come in neat packages. In fact, they are often messy affairs, deadly ones, with consequences that come flying at us with the speed and furor of a Kansas twister. Or worse.

No one knows this better than leaders. They have to face down ugly challenges where there is no right or wrong just bad and worse. And sometimes deadly.

In one way, it’s like the birth of Christ. It set up a line in history that separates all that came before and after it.

That would be the emergence, the rise, of Google.

I am a New Yorker.
A product of New York’s public schools, its mean streets, its melting pot, museums, nightlife, Broadway.

For most of my life I was brimming with pride to proclaim myself a New Yorker. Even when I lived in Paris, I was quick to advise all that my heart, my mind, my persona were reflections of the unique electricity that flowed from the epicenter of everything wise, cool, smart and spectacular.

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It has been more than a half century since James Dean died in a fiery car crash, blowing through the fast lane at age 24.
But in a sense, Dean has never left us– because we won’t let him. The dare devil rebel born in Marion, Indiana  with a compass [...]

All across our land, “Going Out Of Business” signs are staining the landscape. What we are witnessing is more than the ebb and flow of companies reflecting the cyclical nature of capitalism. This time it is the sad and ugly by-product of a governmental jihad against the free market.

Building and running a successful business has always been a challenge and a half but millions take it on — risking their finances and their security– for the chance to build something of their own. To be innovators. To be entrepreneurs. To be the engine of our economy, the job creators, the change makers.

The growing thicket of punishing rules and regulations, the visible and invisible taxes, the Kafkaesque bureaucracy that place us on trial without revealing the charges– all of this perversity makes the mountain that much harder to climb. But regardless of what the tenured little people at the Deptartment Of Business Destruction throw at us, America’s business class marches on. Unstoppable.