Whats the overlap, or biggest difference, between business and politics?
Politics is a business, if you will, with one product, that being the candidate, and the goal being for the candidate to win. It’s much different than having a diversified business with lots of products, customers, and different markets. But one of the important things I’ve learned is, whether you’re working in government or in business, people tend to act pretty much the same in certain situations. So there’s a lot of commonality in what it takes to get an organization to function effectively. And the actual day-to-day? In business, you need to understand, if your competitor makes a big move, what the implication is. But you don’t spend every hour checking on what Dell did in the last 60 minutes. In politics, you do need to understand what’s happening on the other side hourly. I personally don’t have to be on top of every single thing that is going on in the campaign every minute. But today, because I am engaged in the rollout of this economic week, I am paying very close attention to
