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...unheard-of levels of productivity and prosperity. It was America's industrial might that enabled it to win wars and rebuild continents. Other countries may have had the capital, the natural resources or the skilled workers needed to industrialize, but their economic and political systems usually favored consensus management and faceless bureaucrats while denigrating the kind of individual initiative required to take an idea and turn it into an industry. The 21st century will no doubt include a larger number of great business leaders from outside the U.S. as more nations embrace capitalism and come to understand the importance...
...recognized his limitations. Following publication of his autobiography, Iacocca, which sold 7 million copies, he flirted briefly with making a run for the presidency. In the end, Iacocca decided against it, realizing he would never have the patience required to deal with Congress. Compromising to achieve consensus wasn't his long suit, he told me. It would be good if others seeking the presidency, such as Ross Perot and son-of-a-businessman Steve Forbes, better understood this handicap...
...when he was listed as co-author of a book in 1989--The Japan That Can Say No--that suggested that other countries stop complaining about Japanese imports and get to work improving their own corporations. His real opinions were somewhat misrepresented by the publisher: he had intended the consensus-oriented Japanese to see that in other countries disagreement and debate were not insulting and that Japanese could argue with their business partners abroad without destroying their friendship...
Thus began a cascade of defections from what was a rare unanimous international consensus backing U.S. military action. The U.N. announcement decisively changed the geography of the crisis. It was not Iraq that was isolated anymore but the U.S. The result was preordained: America stood down...
...should come as no surprise that the latest research raises more questions than it answers. The National Institutes of Health tried to cut through some of the confusion last week by playing host to a consensus conference to determine what--if anything--the experts can agree on. Among the findings...