The Really Really Big Picture of What Is Happening On Wall Street Today!
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Want more today examples of the "top down scarcity" of the Industrial Age versus Information Age "bottom up abundance." Contrast the thought behind the President of GM in the 1950's saying to the press, "What is good for General Motors, is good for the USA," with that of Steve Jobs chatting with the press, setting barefoot on a table in a lotus position suggesting that Apple has "an insanely great idea it wants to share with the world!"

That comparison is, perhaps, too close to a "Christ like" comparison for the multitude of Jobs bashers out there. Let's give him this—two bottom-up kids in a garage took a shared idea (through the unintentional benevolence of Xerox, who invented the mouse and graphic interface, but didn't know what they had done) and built what could have been the ultimate "big daddy" killer. Remember Apple's famous 1984 introductory commercial—with a lone girl running into a business as usually ceremony and throwing a hammer into the big screen talking head—that right brained creative thinkers loved, and which left the left brain analyticals totally mystified?

Unfortunately, Jobs abundance leadership was replaced by a power play of scarcity by a former President of Pepsi Cola—though it really was never explained why the investment bankers in New York felt this qualified John Scully to dine on the golden goose, while the brand suffered.

The "new, businesslike" Apple "Wall Street aware" management threw away market position by the shovel full, and damn near destroyed the company. All this supposedly for the benefit of the shareholders. Excuse me; Apple had numerous small holders that bought in just because they wanted to be a part of what they considered to be an insanely great machine that could change the world for the better.