you think, oh, my gosh, that s not my country. i mean, that s not the constitution government that i know. they wouldn t teach any of this in college when they teach about how your government works and what the constitution means. but i don t i hope that there would be messages coming from elections, but, you know, i m a democrat, so obviously, i support the obama administration. but you look at the other side and see the leaders are mitt romney and newt gingrich and herman cain. is there going to be a message coming from that, when you take a look at what they re advocating? i don t think so. you know, senator, i was actually in china myself for about ten days, just got back. i talked to a bunch of their policy institutes and even to some rising executives a to the party, the communist party training center about the future of capitalism. you know what their big question was? is our money safe in the united states? i mean, it s insane that a country like china that s poor, you kno
business leaders. is this worse as a problem today with all that we re seeing than it was 30 years ago? was there some golden age? and if so, what s changed? so i don t think we know the answer to your very interest question. given the differences and the ability of the media to help us find out things that have gone wrong, it s hard to compare to a much earlier age. for ann and for myself, i think the domestic is really future oriented rather than analyzing the specifics of penn state or analyzing the failures over the last 30 years. what i think is critical is for leaders to notice what happened at penn state and to and when they re not in the midst of a crisis to think about how they want their managers and kperkts to act when something going whereon in their own organization, and to get that message out now, not to figure out how to respond to their crisis when it happens in their own organization, but to figure
implementation of 2011 wisconsin act 10 is in joint. that s what i now want to make crystal clear. we heard you the first time. god, it s like your walker s mom or something. you know what, you re not the boss of him. ohio s courts totally let governor casic do it. he can publish his laws anywhere he wants. he s going to have his own governments. it will be great. we ll deny labor rates and there s nothing you can do about it and i m going to have a camaro and i hate you! welcome back to morning joe. time now to take a look at the morning papers. the new york times, the richard nixon presidential library in california has opened an exhibit on watergate. it s different from what you ll find in other presidential libraries in one is often an unforgiving account of what happened in the last two years
what they want is just get it done. that idea of accomplishing something. and the most powerful at the end is the close. let s get to work. that s the call to action. so all through the communication you re looking at the right words, right phrases and that intensity. and it s this interactive communication which i m not doing right now, which is to ask you questions rather than you asking me. what are the most common mistakes people make? these are great pieces of advice but i think you wouldn t be writing this book if people didn t struggle with this. what are the common mistakes? first one is that leaders go way, way, way too long. we now have the attention span of a gnat. they like hearing themselves speak, is what what you re saying? yes. they love the applause but the nodding of heads is often more powerful than applause. point two is that they will read something. i don t want to look at a teleprompter. i want to look you straight in
broke. i m a met fan. i appreciate the yankees. don t get me wrong. it s like rooting for steve jobs to hit the lott to or something. i m a met fan. the team s broke. some teams don t have a closer or a pitcher. my team has no money, dave. second base is a manhole cover, dave. really? between every inning they use the other team s gloves. yankees got bat day. the mets got bring a bat day. love it. it will be a long season in new york. poor phil griffin. he loves the mets. some people pick them to finish dead last. go, mets. i m adopting the mets right now. the city of detroit and the mets. go, detroit, go, mets. i like the stadium. we ll go there. let s all go there. still ahead, a preview of meet the press with david gregory, plus, the moment you ve