The End of the Box

We can achieve a Golden Age of American prosperity, safety, and freedom. It will come from imagining a boxless future of endless potential – and then turning the imagination into reality.

In the 1970s, “thinking outside the box” became a popular new management approach.

It started with what was called the nine-dot problem. There were three rows of three dots, and the question was how you could cover all nine dots in four lines without raising your pen or pencil.

It turned out that you could only cover all nine dots if you drew one of the l…