Transition, Transformation and Radical Thinking.
A leading news provider with a vast global reach recently had an interview with a former president. The interview was prompted by phone calls and a 'back and forth' between a sitting president and a delegation regarding a controversy about a wall between two countries kind of like what happens after the romance ends, and you no longer want to fight over the paying for the meal.
He casually and with a flair of 'french' words explained some of the reasons why the economic 'war talk' was going to be damaging for the U.S. There are three countries that formed the core of his argument. Mexico and China came up both which he said, had an advantage in terms of trade. The third was India which was different in that the advantage was of a different kind-an Import Innovative minds whose numbers form the core of silicon valley. Even if the excitement for BRICS seems to have diminished, i think that another country ought to be added to the mix to make it MBRICS (a term my East African friends will appreciate given the tendency and difficulty some of us experience when confronted with words that start with 'B').
So Mexico, Brazil, Russia, India,China and South Africa. Dealing with next door neighbors will be a challenge and will bring about a mix of feelings. What might be necessary though will be a deliberate decision (strategy) to split between the local experience and post independence ones which split the new liberated country and pitted it against the Spaniards, English and host of other free agents. There is a lot to celebrate about the influence of immigrants on such a core aspect of business in a leading country. What i think frightens some, is the difficulty Americans have in decided what it means to be American and where to place the responsibility of the defense of what it means to be American. Every battle or war has a wide range of recruits. Unfortunately the bigger often end up being foot soldiers while the more intelligent will fight yes, but are more likely to sail through and function in a mental arena. Maybe the same principle works for other less obvious areas especially in the unconventional wars that have been a significant marker for the last two decades. While some will sacrifice for the cause in a physical manner others will engage with as much vigor and patriotism except this time expressing this in an intellectual space. How you deal with a group that is just as radical and authoritative but whose sole purpose it to perpetuate a different way of thinking?
How much time will it take to demonstrate that promises delivered during campaign mode and now within the one hundred days of executive orders form a solid enough demonstration of a 'draining of the swamp'. How should people separate between two distinctively different expressions of an executive? How much will be attributed to the Harvard Law Graduate and his tenure from bailouts to health reform to the confrontation with Wall Street? Maybe the orders which have been a direct response to a more liberal presidency and therefore a reversal of these changes will help in defining the rest of the first term but my guess is that instead it will impede the progress and agenda of the Business man eating into the time he needs to engage with his own agenda.
A leading news provider with a vast global reach recently had an interview with a former president. The interview was prompted by phone calls and a 'back and forth' between a sitting president and a delegation regarding a controversy about a wall between two countries kind of like what happens after the romance ends, and you no longer want to fight over the paying for the meal.
He casually and with a flair of 'french' words explained some of the reasons why the economic 'war talk' was going to be damaging for the U.S. There are three countries that formed the core of his argument. Mexico and China came up both which he said, had an advantage in terms of trade. The third was India which was different in that the advantage was of a different kind-an Import Innovative minds whose numbers form the core of silicon valley. Even if the excitement for BRICS seems to have diminished, i think that another country ought to be added to the mix to make it MBRICS (a term my East African friends will appreciate given the tendency and difficulty some of us experience when confronted with words that start with 'B').
So Mexico, Brazil, Russia, India,China and South Africa. Dealing with next door neighbors will be a challenge and will bring about a mix of feelings. What might be necessary though will be a deliberate decision (strategy) to split between the local experience and post independence ones which split the new liberated country and pitted it against the Spaniards, English and host of other free agents. There is a lot to celebrate about the influence of immigrants on such a core aspect of business in a leading country. What i think frightens some, is the difficulty Americans have in decided what it means to be American and where to place the responsibility of the defense of what it means to be American. Every battle or war has a wide range of recruits. Unfortunately the bigger often end up being foot soldiers while the more intelligent will fight yes, but are more likely to sail through and function in a mental arena. Maybe the same principle works for other less obvious areas especially in the unconventional wars that have been a significant marker for the last two decades. While some will sacrifice for the cause in a physical manner others will engage with as much vigor and patriotism except this time expressing this in an intellectual space. How you deal with a group that is just as radical and authoritative but whose sole purpose it to perpetuate a different way of thinking?
How much time will it take to demonstrate that promises delivered during campaign mode and now within the one hundred days of executive orders form a solid enough demonstration of a 'draining of the swamp'. How should people separate between two distinctively different expressions of an executive? How much will be attributed to the Harvard Law Graduate and his tenure from bailouts to health reform to the confrontation with Wall Street? Maybe the orders which have been a direct response to a more liberal presidency and therefore a reversal of these changes will help in defining the rest of the first term but my guess is that instead it will impede the progress and agenda of the Business man eating into the time he needs to engage with his own agenda.
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