If the citizens of the United States were satisfied with their government, there would be no need for this book. Americans would be building, incrementally, on efficiency in the workplace and satisfaction with leadership. That vision, however, remains a fantasy, farther away than ever as we complete the second decade of the 21st Century. A majority of Americans today (over 60 percent) believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. A greater number (over 80 percent), is of the mind that Congress is not doing its job. Why the disconnect between the governor and the governed? Where is a...

Do we seek to enshrine in perpetuity in the Middle East the violence, inequality, instability and desperation that characterizes today? If that is our goal, we should continue along the path of time-tested, centralized solutions that maintain the status quo. Or are we ready to do something about meaningful change other than lament its absence? Citizens in the Middle East are dissatisfied with their governments' initiatives to solve problems and improve lives. In many cases this dissatisfaction has resulted in upheavals by and/or increasingly oppressive measures by the governments. The only...