Politics is not an area we spend much time on for rule breaker investing.

Oh, I've done an election special here or there.

I've talked about Dickens' blues and buffs.

You know, the comic scene from his novel, The Pickwickwick Papers in which a small English town is completely divided in the worst way between two political parties who won't speak to each other.

Well, I'm glad for Dickens's satire and who can miss the parallels

between then and now. I've always loved business. Conscious capitalism is what I'm

talking about, really for two reasons first all parties win there's no

play for power where someone wins and by design the other zero-sum

loses nope the buyer and the seller in business transactions both participate

willingly and when done properly, both win.

You bought my house.

You loved my house. It's now your house. Meantime you paid me money. I can move by a new house. We both win and that's number one why I love business. The second reason is that in bringing us together as opposed to

dividing us apart, business creates real value, and it's of course business that rightly can take credit for so much of human progress

particularly over the last three centuries. Well my guest this week having been bitten

by the Conscious Capitalism Bug a few years back,

took the framework and principles and asked,

what if politics were done consciously?

What would conscious campaigning look like?

Well, with a career strategizing in politics himself, Matthew

Dowd wrote an article a couple of years ago presenting 10 points that were

they adopted would transform politics today in the same way that business is being

transformed by conscious capitalism and I loved it and I wanted to have them on

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