In Part I of this series, I challenged each of us—“we the people”—to stand up and take ownership for fighting and winning the American Jobs Revolution. And that includes American business owners, corporate leaders, and, yes, even the American worker.
All too often today in American business I see owners with a singular focus on profits without equal attention to civic responsibility. I see executives rewarding themselves with so much of the profits that there is too little left to provide adequate investment in people or the technology to compete. I see leaders who start too many things and give up on strategy if it doesn’t work immediately, instead of having the patience to see it through. I see American workers who allow daily limitations to control their level of achievement and expect to be paid more for lower levels of productivity than they contributed the previous year. All of this is frustrating to me as I am so passionate about America and the innovation and direction I believe we can still offer the global community. I am disappointed by our national complacency and inability to take responsibility for our demise or to make the changes necessary to reverse our course. However, like so many great civilizations, we’ve long enjoyed the fruits of our mature society and position as the sole world superpower.
As I consult with companies across America I’ve noticed the increasing need for a structured approach that could build the winning culture and the leadership needed in organizations to reverse the mass exodus of jobs out of America. If you write to me at www.catalystprc.com I will send you the Executive Summary for free. But even with a structured approach I know there is no substitute for prudence and gratitude, for patience and hard work. There is no substitute for sharing wealth, for conviction, stick-to-it-iveness and for the drive to overcome limitation in pursuit of higher achievement. To return to our children the promise we were given by our parents and grandparents we will need to refocus our energies away from the patrician politics in Washington, the Occupy Wall Street movement, the blaming of every country and government since the Nixon administration. If it’s a revolution you want, then why not The American Jobs Revolution?
With this revolution comes a challenge to you, the owner, the executive, the leader, the worker:
To the owner: If you sell it here, make it here. Isn’t the 10% you may lose by making it in this country worth sustaining the democracy, quality of life, and security you and your family enjoy living in America?
To the executive: As good as you are at what you do is it worth doing it at the expense of and depriving others a glimpse of the American Dream?
To the leader: Deliver a plan that wins, believe in it, and stay committed so others can witness what winning and finishing something feels like.
To the worker: Remind owners why, for decades, Made in America meant something, how innovation always trumps limitation, how determined we are to bring jobs back to America.
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