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To understand how we get out of our collective world mess, we need to understand what technology lock-in is and how it relates to market power and establishment forces. Give me a few minutes.

Ever feel like you're living an episode (or season) of the Twilight Zone? This is how I've felt for months - not just the last few, but before the election, too. How have we come to this? And how do we get out of this? Give me a few minutes.

The Left is losing its touch. For an ideology that is focused on tolerance and open-mindedness, the Left's Resistance movement seems to be so focused on reacting to Trump and the GOP, that it's forgetting how to listen to others to be better influencers. The Right, for its part, is so greedy with its power, that it's already shooting itself in the foot. Give me a few minutes.

When conservatives speak, they hear a different message than what liberals hear. When liberals speak, they hear a different message than what conservatives hear. Did Donald Trump call Mexicans murderers and rapists OR did he highlight a border security issue? Understanding this linguistics gap is crucial to 1) influencing the other side, and 2) building up our understanding of the problem from ALL angles... Give me a few minutes.

Will the liberal backlash be strong enough to take back full control of Congress in 2018 or 2020? Will the Right destroy its own chances to have majority control of the government for a generation? Will the anti-establishment movement continues... My predictions? Give me a few minutes.

Generally speaking, conservatives tend to prioritize the Constitution and Religion over human rights, equality, and justice. While Liberals tend to prioritize human rights, equality, and justice over the Constitution and Religion... With 51% of Trump supporters believing that the President should have the right to override the Courts, are we now seeing a flip of the script? Give me a few minutes.

The amount of discord between the Left and the Right with the election of Donald Trump. Progressives can achieve far more by moving beyond panicking. Everyone can achieve far more by moving beyond bickering. It's not one ideology or another that's correct - no ideology will ever win (at least not in our lifetime). So the question becomes, how can transform our current emotions into productive action that strengthen our democracy and moves toward post-ideological politics? There's a clear way forward. Give me a few minutes.

Progressives have seen nothing but negativity in the election of Donald Trump. He's not a progressive, but there are some very likely positives that will come from Trump's election for the progressive cause... if people see the potential possibilities and focus on making them real. Give me a few minutes.

If management is a science, then leadership is most certainly the art... but like the martial arts, leadership can be learned, practiced, and improved. Yet, we don't do enough in business, government, or community organizations to develop our leaders. Instead, we rely too much on a top-down authoritative structure that is killing our society and our democracy. Give me a few minutes.

There's no doubt that free market principles deliver incredibly value to the consumer and to the ownership of the prevailing businesses. However, the consolidation of market power produces troubling realities with no easy solution. Amazon is an example of such market power, producing incredibly value for consumers, but reducing jobs and increasing difficulty for disruption. That doesn't need to be a bad thing, but it requires a frank discussion and a return to a familiar concept. Give me a few minutes.