Wall Street, the banks, and corporate America, has been able to call the shots here. They control our members of Congress and they get what they want.
I am very excited and delighted to be an important part of the development of corporate America.
So often corporate America, business America, are the worst communicators, because all they understand are facts, and they cannot tell a story. They know how to explain their quarterly results, but they don't know how to explain what they mean.
I don't want corporate America to think they can continue their duplicitous double-dealing.
I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us.
It is time for corporate America to become 'the third pillar' of social change in our society, complementing the first two pillars of government and philanthropy. We need the entire private sector to begin committing itself not just to making profits, but to fulfilling higher and larger purposes by contributing to building a better world.
And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as there are big profits to be made.
A lot of what is wrong with corporate America has to do with a culture filled with antibodies trained to expel anything different. HR departments often want cookie cutter employees, which inevitably results in cookie cutter solutions.
Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.
I had a very good job in corporate America, but I quickly knew that was not how I was wired.