There are so many issues, so many opportunities to bring people together who have different perspectives, to develop action plans, and to have a significant impact on those issues.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm focusing on the issues that bring people together and build broad majorities.
Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.
You must engage at the level of people's higher order values, and in doing so, you can engage them in a meaningful way on a large number of issues.
The thorniest business problems will surface at the board meetings, and the different, sharp opinions help to better explore the poles of the arguments to make better decisions.
When I consider a problem, it is now instinctive for me to think about the institutions involved, the authorizing environment, possible coalitions, likely opposition, implementation, legal issues, resource dimensions, communications - and how the problem fits into a stream of other issues.
There are many domestic issues that give us a lot of common ground to work on. Health, education and immigration are among the areas where we share mutual goals and aspirations. There are also many values that we share as a communities.
People have to deal with their issues together; they have to expose themselves and kind of exhaust themselves.
I think we can work through a lot of these issues.
One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on abortion, birth control, divorce and remarriage, civil rights or social justice.
If you focus on what people care about, you have ideas. And people are looking for solutions.
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