To the Editor:
“Lessons
for the Democrats, Some Perhaps Cautionary, After a Signal Triumph”
(news article, March 23) wonders whether President Obama would be
better off going small or going big on the rest of his agenda. Every
superb senior corporate executive I have advised has had the same
opinion:
It takes almost as much effort to get something small done as it does
to get something big done. This is particularly true in today’s
hyperconnected world, where each little thing affects something else.
Focus on a small thing, and concerns about its possible impact will
almost always freeze action. So what should the president do?
Continue to make the big bets and deal with the political fallout.
Amit S. Mukherjee
Watertown, Mass., March 23, 2010
The writer is the author of “The Spider’s
Strategy,” a book about managing in a hyperconnected world.
Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D. 