Newsweek's cover story, "America, Inc."

We have spent two decades at The Sawyer-Miller Group and Core Strategy Group borrowing the lessons of politics for businesses....and the lessons of businesses for politics....

And both feed off each other in terms of best practice lessons: Politics teaches the power of what we call insurgent or Underdog strategy, control of the dialogue and discipline. And business teaches the power of bottom line focus and discipline. For example, one evolution of President Obama's cabinet, I suspect, will be the addition of further business and bottom line expertise: Two cabinet officials, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Interior, have significant business leadership experience. We'll need more.

Government must not only govern--it must pay it's bills....just like those of us who run companies.

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