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Management and Leadership Musings on the Week:

I step softly on political issues outside of the office kind, here on the blog, but the politics as theater in our world is too fascinating to ignore. We are indeed involved in what is our fabulous right to select our leader(s), yet, we are reduced to a spectacle that has grown men (in this case) vying to lead their party by hurling insults (OK, 3 of 4 hurl insults) that remind one more of the playground than the boardroom or the seat of power. On the other side, the leading candidate would love to seize the moment, yet faces the dumbest technical decision (e-mail server) since Nixon decided to secretly record conversations in the White House. Where will it end and what will it look like when it is finished? At least we know when. C’mon November!

The U.S. economy is showing signs of strong resilience, in spite of the global headwinds, as evidenced in the recent round of job numbers and an upbeat performance in the past week by our stock market. Of course, this sounds like the cue for the FED to raise rates, insuring no return of inflation in a world that looks a lot like it is in a deep and dangerous deflationary spiral. 

As for milestones, we lost two people who had an impact last week. Aubrey Mcclendon, the father of much of the fracking boom in the U.S. and one of the prime drivers behind the cheap gas and fuel prices we are all enjoying passed in an automobile crash a day after being indicted. In the world of sports, the voice of tennis for my generation, Bud Collins, finished his final set.