Politics: You don't have to play the game, but it's better if you do.

It's a little late, but I committed in the last blog to blog if I possibly could, so here we go.

I've always believed that politics was important, but I've now realized that it should be a vital part of any business strategy.

In Bruce Wasserstein's book, Big Deal, he discusses the, "Five Pistons-changes in regulation, technology, financial markets, personal leadership and scale." This is in context of what are catalysts of new deals.

Since we are in a hurricane of either new regulations (laws,etc) or changes in regulation, it seems like the greatest gains are going to be built around what is going on right now in Washington.

So if we can't beat them......