The purpose of this paper is to speculate about the connection between business strategy and the apparent increase in structural unemployment in the USA.
This paper is an opinion column.
Breakthrough strategies are triumphs of imagination over plodding incrementalism. A lack of strategic imagination may be one of the causes of the increasing distress of the American middle class.
This paper is based on personal opinion.
Will the unemployment crisis of the middle class be solved at the level of firm strategy, or will it take action at a higher level?
Can individual firms pursuing their individual interests solve the unemployment crisis, or will it take some action at a higher (or lower) level?
It is hoped that this article will provoke thought about this topic.
