So over dinner last night, from the mouth of my girlfriend’s thirteen-year-old daughter, a question emerges:
“Did you know it’s illegal for Americans to go to Cuba?”
I did know. But I wonder: why?
John Kerry is wondering why, too. Remember Senator Kerry? Almost became President. Dull, boring, and unable to connect with people very well, but he sure is smart. And the timing of his editorial in the St. Petersburg Times intersecting my own life yesterday made me think: that embargo has to end.
In the spirit of coopetition is replacing competition business change, let me point out that business is a lot like politics. I’m down with President Kennedy’s original reason for the embargo against trade with Cuba, and it wasn’t much of a hardship for American honeymooners to pick other islands or cigar smokers to switch to Dominicans. But today’s business world has no place for antagonistic practices.
Or as Sun Tzu told us long ago in The Art of War: Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
