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01 Appreciation

Appreciation

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Chapter 5: Systems Thinking & True Cost Economics

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A.  Thinking & the Truth. 76

B.  Systems Thinking. 77

1.  Overview.. 77

2.  Time & Space in Systems Thinking. 78

3.  Creating & Using a Provisional Model 79

4.  Understanding Risk. 79

5.  Acts of Man: Failures That Turn Disasters into Catastrophes. 79

6.  Systems Thinking & Deliberative Change. 79

7.  Resilience through Panarchy. 79

B.  True Cost Economics. 79

1.  Overview.. 79

2.  Elements of True Cost 79

3.  True Cost of War 79

4.  True Cost of Coal, Cotton, & Sugar 79

5.  True Cost of a Cheating Culture. 79

6.  True Cost of an Idiot Public. 79

7.  True Cost of Losing Faith & Trust 80

C.  On Integrity – and Feedback Loops. 80

D.  Alternative Measures of Merit 80

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01 Preface i-ii

Preface

This is the first book in the English language to address intelligence with integrity as a whole systems process, product, and service – as an integral function of both citizen life and the governance of any organization.  Although conceptualized as a result of a lifetime of service in the so-called profession of intelligence, the essence of this book is captured in Ada Bozeman’s timeless insight (1998: 177):

(There is a need) to recognize that just as the essence of knowledge is not as split up into academic disciplines as it is in our academic universe, so can intelligence not be set apart from statecraft and society, or subdivided into elements…such as analysis and estimates, counterintelligence, clandestine collection, covert action, and so forth. Rather … intelligence is a scheme of things entire.

In that light, the following three quotations are helpful in understanding the importance of this work to the future of humanity (Ackoff 2004):

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Bibliography

PBI: Phi Beta Iota the Public Intelligence Blog

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06 CH 4.1 Strategy 47-56
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Chapter 4: Four Domains for Applied Intelligence

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A. Integrity Is a Grand Strategy  47

B.  Grand Strategy  49

C.  Strategy  49

D.  Threats, Goals, Priorities  50

E.  Whole of Government Management  51

F.  Affordable Coherent Acquisition  52

G.  Just Enough Just in Time Operations  53

H.  Strategic Education  53

I.  Strategic Intelligence  54

J.  Strategic Research  54

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05 CH 3.2 The Human Factor 35-46

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04 CH 2.4 Information Pathologies 21-34

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Chapter 2: 

The InfoSphere & Its Enemies

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A.  Cybernetics 101  22

B.  Truth or Not Truth  22

C.  The Evolution of Information Needs  23

D.  Eight Isolated Information Communities  24

E.  Information Cube  25

F.  Information Fragmentation  26

G.  Information Pathologies  27

H.  Sourcing – Art & Science  29

I.  Collective Intelligence  29

J.  The Human Factor – Always  30

K.  Information Challenges  30

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