There are common reasons that indicate a businesses is having problems:
- Misreading or ignoring market trends
- Focusing more on competitors than customers
- Confusing management with leadership, tactics with strategy
- Promoting leaders who misunderstand their jobs and surround themselves with blind loyalists
- Destroying employee confidence with limited or no communication from management
This is because until two weeks ago there wasn’t a Democratic agenda. The Democrats’ new “Six for ’06″ campaign is more a compendium of political slogans and ideological hot buttons than a serious policy agenda — again, the very thing Americans (customers) say they don’t want.
So, like most political turning points this election will fundamentally be a referendum for the party in power rather than on the leadership of the opposition.
Voters are angry at Republicans, dissatisfied with their programs and disenchanted with their leadership. It’s less that Democrats will have won this election than Republicans will have lost it.

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[...] And there in lies the problem (back to my old argument, whichever side wins…we loose). [...]