Session 2:
Strategy and Leadership

No football coach expects to be successful without first having a playbook that contains all of the potential actions that might be taken in order to achieve success on the field. It is understood that each player will have a role in carrying out his part of the playbook. Some will have big roles, some minor roles. While there is obviously a role for individual initiative in carrying out the coach’s expectations regarding the playbook, chaos and ultimately defeat follow if each player decides to go that player’s own way. The advocates of competition have no playbook. Currently, market advocates are operating without a much needed course of action.

There is a lack of leadership. There is even a reluctance of many corporate officials in being associated in a very public way with leadership and the competitive electricity movement. Nevertheless, without academic, non-profit, consumer, political, and corporate leadership it is clear that we will not make progress.