There are party leaders, big corporation, Wall Street. There are very wealthy individuals who kind of represent where the Democratic Party, the official Democratic Party was and to some extent still is.

Socialism for rich bankers and capitalism for everyone else.

If leadership is about anything, it's about leading. Not leading people back to where they already are, because they don't need that. They're already there.

We already have an annual wealth tax on homes, the major asset of the middle class. It's called the property tax. Why not a small annual tax on the value of stocks and bonds, the major assets of the wealthy?

Now we're in a very different economy. Throughout the late 1980s and 1990s American management started to do the right things. There was extraordinary investment in technology. The dominant questions now are less how to do it better, how to manage better, how to make the economy better, than how to have fuller and more meaningful lives. Because the irony is, now that we've come through this great transition, even though our organizations and our people are extraordinarily productive, many feel that the nonwork side of life is very thin.

I have found over the years that the most important way of getting people to relax is self-deprecating humor.

In journalism, there are only two stories - "Oh, the wonder of it," and "Oh, the shame of it."