Due to the corporate tax cuts passed last year, companies are bringing hundreds of millions of dollars back to the United States, which they have been accumulating overseas for years. And for the most part, they are spending this cash repatriation on stock buybacks rather than core competencies. […]

Companies are beginning to realize that most productive innovations are incremental and rise up from the lower regions of the org chart. But they won’t even surface if you don’t give your people the authority and opportunity to use their imaginations. […]

Most immigrants are perfectly suited to become successful entrepreneurs. Unlike people born in the U.S.—immigrants actually recognize how wonderful this country actually is. They marvel at half a dozen factors in American life most of us consider a given of daily life. We need them. […]

Over the past five decades, Stephen Brill says in "Tailspin," American meritocracy became something like a system of patronage where the clever and fortunate few insure that they and their progeny and cohorts get wealthier and more powerful while the rest of the country has languished. […]

America would do well to follow Germany’s example and revive the respect we showed to manual laborers and skilled tradespeople half a century ago. There are currently 2.5 million chronically unfilled jobs requiring technological training alone because qualified U.S. employees can’t be found. […]