I’ll be interviewing Glenn Shepard on Thursday, Jul 30 at 10:00 a.m. EDT (9:00 a.m. CDT) on Car Concerns. Glenn is the President of Glenn Shepard Seminars and provides superb training for managers that is both practical and usable. Having attended Glenn’s training in person, I strongly recommend his seminar. Go to www.CarConcerns.com to either listen live or to the archive.

So, naturally you ask, why would Larry interview a business trainer when Larry usually has guests who talk about political topics?

The answer is this. Many of the insights Glenn offers about today’s worker also have application to understanding the behavior of today’s voter. That’s what we’re going to talk about.

For a free video preview of what Glenn provides in his seminars, go to www.MyFreePreview.com/

A misconception seems to exist today about the workings of the free market. Having a free market should not be defined as business gets to do whatever it pleases and consumers can take it or leave it.

A free market means a balance exists between the interests of business and consumers. When an imbalance exists between the two in a representative democracy, the role of government is to change the rules of commerce reestablishing the balance between the two.

Unfortunately, our nation of late has elected a majority of people to government who apparently believed in the former theory—business should be allowed to do as it pleases. The near collapse of our economic system resulted.

Such a belief in the superiority of business over consumers might be based on the thought a business competitor should be able to start a new type of business and allow consumers to move from an inefficient business model to an efficient one. But what happens when circumstances make it impossible to operate the needed new model profitably? In such a situation, consumers would have no choice because no new business would start.

What should happen is consumers and innovative business people request . . .

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