Think of this as Volume 12, Number 25 of A-Clue.com, the online newsletter I've written since 1997. Enjoy.
Last week I talked about why America will win the future.
Now I want to talk about how to do that, and our responsibility for making that happen.
America will continue to lead because of the hard work we have all done in the last generation, not so much in Washington but in our lives and communities.
All the many movements of the last generation -- the womens' movement, the gay rights movement, the civil rights movement, the fight for rights for the disabled and ethnic minorities, the environmental movement -- all of what I have called the AntiThesis to the Nixon Thesis, or the outright rejection of that thesis -- all have had an impact.
All of them have taken us further down the road of progress than most other societies have even contemplated going, and what came to me most clearly during my recent trip was that elites elsewhere recognize that progress, and envy it.
What they have given our society is flexibility, mobility, an ability to adapt to change unparalleled in human history. The ruins of failed societies all around the world attest to this. Change is the hardest work a society can undertake. No society has succeeded at it like ours, and none has done more to unite people worldwide around the idea that change is both good and necessary.
The clearest proof is living in the White House right now. But we can't rest on that laurel. Here is what we must do:
- Set high goals
- Learn what real leadership means
- Embrace the change process
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