As the founder and former CEO of two New York Stock Exchange companies, I firmly believe that the skills developed as a solutions-oriented, pragmatic business leader are very valuable in public service. But, these skills must be balanced with real experience in public service – particularly for someone considering the Presidency.
The central question facing the United States of America is how do we take a terribly divided nation, where American has been pitted against American, and come together?
Reporting from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland; New York Times business columnist Kevin Roose wrote that executives and industry leaders are “racing to automate their own work forces to stay ahead of the competition, with little regard for the impact on workers.”
Presidential candidate John Delaney releases the following statement regarding the Federal Aviation Administration’s grounding of flights at LaGuardia.
In Mr. Delaney’s view, America’s trouble isn’t capitalism but a dysfunctional federal government that has “stopped updating that basic social compact.”
Delaney… believes in returning to the assertive, values-promoting, alliance-building foreign policy approach that majorities in both parties once traditionally supported.