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The Lost Leader?!
Posted on Oct 23rd, 2007
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Albert
The Lost Leader?!
This is how NEWSWEEk sees German Chancellor Angela Merkel in their new issue from Oct 29. Its symptomatic for a view that thinks in old bipartisan categories of left and right. Not that it is wrong but the real shift is an memetic inbalance. There is no stable advanced green vmemitic economy estabished. Additionally the burden of big West-East Integration is to be shouldered.
An integrated healthy orange-blue Foundation in Values in politics and economy is still work-in.progress and demands for full sucess a broad new alliance of entrepreneurial minded innovative leadership . And I mean as much in science, culture as in politics, business and media Landscape. Centers of Excellence with muscular capacity to bridge different core gaps which cannot be done by old fashioned and futile party fights. Beyond Lobbyism and mere Mediation. Beyond mere strategy of Win and towards a third win at ALL stages.
The real challenge lies in an innovation offensive and far reaching perspectives in European light too. Yes, stratified approach with maybe council of the wise. This Council of course must be liberated from any conventional dilemma of either .or.
The Chancellor hasnt lost leadership. Leadership in Germany must be defined in a new way. And the talent portfolio and asset structure of it has to cast complete new potentials and thinking structures. Only then a blueprint for action in "Innenpolitik" will be as remarkable as in Foreign Relations. And the German contributions for Europe and World will be even more powerful and sustainable.
Calculating to A Fault
Angela Merkel once promised to rescue Germany from its torpor. But the country has had a change of heart about her reforms—and so has she.
By Stefan Theil | NEWSWEEK
Oct 29, 2007 Issu
This summer, a remarkable survey raised eyebrows in political Berlin. The Al-Lensbach Institute, a respected arbiter of the country's mood, found that 45 percent of west Germans (and 57 percent of east Germans) consider socialism "a good idea." Only 25 percent of Germans disagreed. Despite the country's disastrous experience with 40 years of communism, socialism's "magic allure" has steadily increased over the past decade and a half, from 36 percent nationwide in 1991, says Allensbach political analyst Thomas Petersen. "The Zeitgeist," he says, "has definitely shifted left." The Germans' growing love for leftist ideals contrasts sharply with the incredible boom of Germany's (mostly) capitalist economy. Last week, new numbers showed that parts of German industry are growing at double-digit rates not seen since the go-go 1960s, thanks in part to some decidedly unsocialist economic reforms. Over the past year, an unprecedented one million Germans left the unemployment rolls, cutting the jobless rate from its all-time high of 12 percent in 2005 to less than 9 percent today. Some categories of workers who used to have little chance of ever landing a job—like workers over age 50—are now also finding employment. And once again, Germany appears to be turning into an engine of growth for Europe.
So what accounts for the strange lurch left? (On the following pages, four experts weigh in on that question.) It seems as soon as the economy perks up, the willingness to face tough economic realities is gone. Now, this mood threatens to stop—and even unravel—the very economic reforms that helped unleash the present boom. In response, both parties in Chancellor Angela Merkel's unwieldy coalition government, the center-left Social Democrats and Merkel's own center-right Christian Democrats, seem to be falling over each other with proposals to roll back reforms, while she herself remains largely out of the fray. Whether it's more generous unemployment benefits, handouts for families, or new minimum wages—"every single policy being proposed in Berlin makes an economist's hair stand on end," says Holger Schmieding, chief economist at Bank of America in London. Depending on how much of it becomes law, Schmieding says Germany's economic situation may once again darken. In any case, the brief Berlin Spring of German economic reform is over.
Read more..
See also this series of 5 related articles in NEWSWEEK.
This is how NEWSWEEk sees German Chancellor Angela Merkel in their new issue from Oct 29. Its symptomatic for a view that thinks in old bipartisan categories of left and right. Not that it is wrong but the real shift is an memetic inbalance. There is no stable advanced green vmemitic economy estabished. Additionally the burden of big West-East Integration is to be shouldered.
An integrated healthy orange-blue Foundation in Values in politics and economy is still work-in.progress and demands for full sucess a broad new alliance of entrepreneurial minded innovative leadership . And I mean as much in science, culture as in politics, business and media Landscape. Centers of Excellence with muscular capacity to bridge different core gaps which cannot be done by old fashioned and futile party fights. Beyond Lobbyism and mere Mediation. Beyond mere strategy of Win and towards a third win at ALL stages.
The real challenge lies in an innovation offensive and far reaching perspectives in European light too. Yes, stratified approach with maybe council of the wise. This Council of course must be liberated from any conventional dilemma of either .or.
The Chancellor hasnt lost leadership. Leadership in Germany must be defined in a new way. And the talent portfolio and asset structure of it has to cast complete new potentials and thinking structures. Only then a blueprint for action in "Innenpolitik" will be as remarkable as in Foreign Relations. And the German contributions for Europe and World will be even more powerful and sustainable.
Calculating to A Fault
Angela Merkel once promised to rescue Germany from its torpor. But the country has had a change of heart about her reforms—and so has she.
By Stefan Theil | NEWSWEEK
Oct 29, 2007 Issu
This summer, a remarkable survey raised eyebrows in political Berlin. The Al-Lensbach Institute, a respected arbiter of the country's mood, found that 45 percent of west Germans (and 57 percent of east Germans) consider socialism "a good idea." Only 25 percent of Germans disagreed. Despite the country's disastrous experience with 40 years of communism, socialism's "magic allure" has steadily increased over the past decade and a half, from 36 percent nationwide in 1991, says Allensbach political analyst Thomas Petersen. "The Zeitgeist," he says, "has definitely shifted left." The Germans' growing love for leftist ideals contrasts sharply with the incredible boom of Germany's (mostly) capitalist economy. Last week, new numbers showed that parts of German industry are growing at double-digit rates not seen since the go-go 1960s, thanks in part to some decidedly unsocialist economic reforms. Over the past year, an unprecedented one million Germans left the unemployment rolls, cutting the jobless rate from its all-time high of 12 percent in 2005 to less than 9 percent today. Some categories of workers who used to have little chance of ever landing a job—like workers over age 50—are now also finding employment. And once again, Germany appears to be turning into an engine of growth for Europe.
So what accounts for the strange lurch left? (On the following pages, four experts weigh in on that question.) It seems as soon as the economy perks up, the willingness to face tough economic realities is gone. Now, this mood threatens to stop—and even unravel—the very economic reforms that helped unleash the present boom. In response, both parties in Chancellor Angela Merkel's unwieldy coalition government, the center-left Social Democrats and Merkel's own center-right Christian Democrats, seem to be falling over each other with proposals to roll back reforms, while she herself remains largely out of the fray. Whether it's more generous unemployment benefits, handouts for families, or new minimum wages—"every single policy being proposed in Berlin makes an economist's hair stand on end," says Holger Schmieding, chief economist at Bank of America in London. Depending on how much of it becomes law, Schmieding says Germany's economic situation may once again darken. In any case, the brief Berlin Spring of German economic reform is over.
Read more..
See also this series of 5 related articles in NEWSWEEK.
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