Eagle: Charles Hugh Smith on US Fragility

Cultural Intelligence
300 Million Talons...
300 Million Talons…

What's America's Fragility Score?

These five factors function as a rough rating system to measure a nation's fragility. Nations with near-zero scores in all five factors are anti-fragile (i.e. durable and able to weather crises) and nations with high scores in all five are fragile, i.e. prone to instability and failure when faced with crisis.

How does the U.S. stack up? 4 out of 5 FRAGILE

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John Robb: CEOs as Targets

Cultural Intelligence
John Robb
John Robb

New: It's Open Season on the Tech Elite

…we are going to find out very quickly that the corporation, and particularly tech companies, are particularly bad organizations for warfare.  One reason is that they are too centralized.  The CEO's centrality to the corporate network makes him/her a single point of failure for the entire organization.  Another is that executives in most of the western world are very soft targets.

Old: PIERCING THE CORPORATE VEIL

Is business war?  It is in the world of post-industrial, post-state conflict. Battles between the corporate allies of nation-states and the transnational tribes and gangs of black globalization are at the core of this century's epochal war.

Michael Kearns: Anthony McWatt on Pirsig’s Metaphysics of Quality

Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence
Michael S. Kearns
Michael S. Kearns

A most helpful integrative starting point for thinking about ethics, leadership, and the unity of knowledge and wisdom. Asks and answers twelve questions.

Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality

by Anthony McWatt
Philosophy post-grad Seminar, University of Liverpool, February 12th 1998.

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SchwartzReport: Naomi Klein on Predatory Capitalism, Holistic Earth & Human Centric Economics

Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

I am beginning to detect a growing trend towards changing the capitalist economic model from one in which profit is the only priority to one in which wellness is the priority, and profit must be made within that paradigm.

SPIEGEL Interview with Naomi Klein: ‘The Economic System We Have Created Global Warming'

Phi Beta Iota: Naomi Klein suffers from the same fragmentation of understanding that all activists suffer, but the emerging convergence of her concerns along with those of Richard Wolff, combined with the emerging possibilities  for electoral reform and a holistic open source activist tool-kit, suggest that between now and 2020 predatory capitalism will be capped and authentic democracy will rise again.

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