05-10-2011, 02:54 PM
Yes that's the thing and both you and cbelt hit on something important here, the balance of power between business and labor is very seriously out of wack. When workers can be treated like disposable rubbish, as they have been over the past decade, it does not set business up for health and prosperity, it sets business up for short term gains and long term disaster.
What I would like to see in American business, and maybe we're finally starting to turn this page, is the return of "knowledge people" to management, and a turn away from the "money people."
Knowledge people actually understand the product the company sells and the industry and bigger business environment of which it is a part. If we'd kept visionary "knowledge people" at the helm of our auto manufacturing businesses for example, could some of that disaster have been avoided?
No foreign enemy could have done to our economy what we've managed to do ourselves in just a few short decades. Scapegoating workers needs to stop, for starters.
What I would like to see in American business, and maybe we're finally starting to turn this page, is the return of "knowledge people" to management, and a turn away from the "money people."
Knowledge people actually understand the product the company sells and the industry and bigger business environment of which it is a part. If we'd kept visionary "knowledge people" at the helm of our auto manufacturing businesses for example, could some of that disaster have been avoided?
No foreign enemy could have done to our economy what we've managed to do ourselves in just a few short decades. Scapegoating workers needs to stop, for starters.