Day-to-Day Leadership

"Any idiot can face a crisis.  It's day-to-day living that wears you out," Anton Chekhov, the noted Russian physician and playwright once said.  

So it seems with the state of business in America these days.  We move from one crisis to another, each coming much too quickly in succession.  For the most part, though, leaders rise to the occasion, as evidenced by the debt ceiling debate (debacle), the Standard & Poor's downgrading, and the chronic and continued joblessness.

What our business and political leaders have significantly less success addressing, however, is the day-to-day drudgery that saddles most Americans.  Making the ends meet is a constant and consistent challenge for the average family. Whether it is paying the mortgage, coming up with college tuition, or handling higher gas prices, the day-to-day living is wearing the public out. 

Now that business leaders, especially the big guys, know these things, we all must wonder what they can do on a day-to-day basis to help their employees, staffs, small business partners, vendors and suppliers weather the daily storm.

(c) 2011 Adonis E. Hoffman