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It's been a while since a weigh-in on our current events. So let's focus on the president's jobs and competitveness council. An impressive group of people who are assigned with the task to take laser-focused bites into finding the holy grail of turning our country's economic woes around. As many of you know, there are some small tweaks that can be made to a huge engine that will turn it's efficiency on like there's no tomorrow. This council is on the hunt for those small tweaks.... distilling the problems, and then using laser focus to make hopefully radical changes in pushing America into a now global leader of (well, we don't know quite what yet) some new technology. It seems like after their second meeting, the focus will be on:
here's the link to the official document: http://www.jobs-council.com/docs/JC_Ideas_FactSheet.pdf
And that pretty much sums up the ideas and "laser" focus that is going to pull us out. Personally I was HOPING for a new vision that was going to really super-charge CHANGE in America like:
President Obama has given the task of solving our economic woes by seeking the best minds in business. This IS THE BOX. If we want to think outside the box, he's done a great job of starting - because in order to think out of the box, you need to know what the box is. I think therein lies the problem. You don't ask corporate leaders to come up with new ideas. You go to the street and look for creativity through scrappy entrepreneurs, and super hungry engineers looking to invent the next best thing. Giant corporations end up buying or stifling these ideas in order to promote or protect their interests. If you want to change the corporation of America, then the key is to find those tiny, scrappy individuals who are thinking way outside the box. And now that our Jobs council has issued their collective ideas, we can really start to look beyond them. If anyone has comments or can suggest other super-unifying ideas that will push
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