This is a further impediment to industrial manufacturers primed
for recovery, ready to break the chains of so much government-induced uncertainty.
Having taken the right steps to conserve, strengthen and prepare for renewed
growth, manufacturers are eager to hire again. When they needed to, they made
necessary cuts in spending, and you can bet that if any one of these manufacturers had been
incapable of reducing 2.3% of its gross spending, the CEO of that company would
have been removed. Yet that is the very situation that has faced the would-be leaders of our
congress.
Perhaps this period in our democracy can serve as a reminder
for any business, whether an industrial manufacturer or the congress of the
United States: A winning culture starts with a core coalition of leaders
dedicated to the mission of the company: Leaders who understand that the greater
potential of the company lies in its collective ability to serve the needs of
customers: Leaders who feel a sense of urgency to agree on a course of action.
The reason our congress has been unable to act on such an
obvious matter of urgency is because there is no core coalition in place, no
group of leaders able to feel and act on such urgency, and so no possibility of
agreement. The career politicians entrenched in Washington D.C. are not in the
main motivated by mission and intellectual honesty, but by self-interests and
personal survival.
Ironically, meanwhile in Rome, a 2000-year-old organization is
about to implement a very different kind of sequester. Its core coalition is
about to begin a super retreat during which it will in relatively short order agree
on a new CEO to replace a retiring CEO, a situation not encountered by the
company for 700 years.
Say what you will about the Catholic church, this will be a
decision efficiently arrived at so as to avoid sending the company and its
marketplace into a downward spiral of self-destructive uncertainty.
Talk about the importance of culture.
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Well said, JB.
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