Do you let the facts get in the way of a good story?
What do you do with people who disagree with you… do you call them names in order to shut them down?
Are you open to multiple points of view or you demand compliance and uniformity? [Bonus: Are you willing to walk away from a project or customer or employee who has values that don't match yours?]
Is it okay if someone else gets the credit?
How often are you able to change your position?
Do you have a goal that can be reached in multiple ways?
If someone else can get us there faster, are you willing to let them?
No textbook answers… It's easy to get tripped up by these. In fact, most leaders I know do.
ASADABAD, Afghanistan: Emotional Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday urged international troops to “stop their operations in our land”, his strongest salvo yet in a row over mistaken civilian killings.
Karzai's comments came after a week in which a relative of his was killed in a raid by foreign forces and he rejected an apology by the US commander of troops General David Petraeus for the deaths of nine children in a NATO strike.
“I would like to ask NATO and the US with honour and humbleness and not with arrogance to stop their operations in our land,” Karzai said, visiting the dead children's relatives in Kunar province, eastern Afghanistan.
If you're from Tyler, your state Rep. Leo Berman gave the OK for a rally last Saturday at the Capitol to promote a November vote on whether Texas should secede from the United States.
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Phi Beta Iota: Texas is not alone. The most likely states to secede are Vermont and Hawaii, followed by Texas and Alaska. If the US Government continues on its present course, we speculate that at least ten to fifteen states will evaluate, if not execute, secession options that include the recovery of federal lands, the exclusion of federal forces, and complete tax moratoriums.
Open Source Civic Engagement Platform “Kajoo” ready to launch at SXSW
2011 is already the year of Internet-fuelled civic revolution. The
immediacy and reach of the social media now provides not just a
powerful way of connecting, but also a new sense of citizenship to
communities around the world.
Kajoo looks beyond today’s revolutions and explores what civic
engagement looks like in the age of social media. It has an engaging
interface that enables users to earn points and rewards for reporting
opportunities for civic improvement, proposing solutions, and
implementing those solutions.
Phi Beta Iota: One of our colleagues serving in the wilderness has brought to our attention the reading selections and associated reviews of R. ARANT. 127 as of today, both the choice of books and the integrity inherent in the reviews are for our collective, an inspiration. We urge one and all to appreciate this individual's reviews with a vote.
Air Force officer, former NGO staffer in Thailand and translator for the United Nations in Cambodia, with interests in the Thai, Khmer and Lao languages.
Reviews of special value to Public Intelligence (below the line)
In the fall of 2010, CACI of Arlington, a major player in the U.S. government's cyber security business, held a symposium entitled “Cyber Threats to National Security,” in partnership with the U.S. Naval Institute to discuss the issue of Cyber Security. CACI is chasing roughly $2 billion worth of cyber-related contracts over the next few years and company executives said they sponsored the symposium pro bono.
The symposium's conclusions: There are redundancies, little coordination and a lack of clarity among the various government agencies, organizations and military command posts that do cyber work. The symposium report notes, “agencies have overlapping and uncoordinated responsibilities for cyber security activities.”
The Obama administration's new Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI), it says, “faces substantial challenges that cannot be overcome unless roles and responsibilities of all key CNCI participants are fully coordinated.” That includes several agencies: “Commerce, Defense, and Homeland Security; the Intelligence Community and other executive branch entities,” all with “various overlapping and potentially competing responsibilities.”
Cybercom under General Alexander is not even going to come close to addressing these problems. Indeed the whole CNCI Program looks increasingly like yet another ploy to grow the U.S. National Security Establishment and spread the government largesse to a new party of contractors. There is no evidence that I have seen that any persons of consequence in the U.S. Government have actually examined the concept of U.S. cyberspace, much less explored methods and techniques that could be employed to provide it with minimum security.
The reason this suggests that the whole CNCI is a scam is that in point of fact that concepts such as ‘cyberspace’ and securing cyberspace have been extensively studied by computer and telecommunications experts in and out of government. No less a government authority than the U.S. National Defense University (a DOD institution) published a detailed and accurate study of these topics in the book Cyberpower and National Security. So the ignorance and confusion over the development of a comprehensive cybersecurity plan on the part of the leaders of the CNCI Program, including General Alexander, is really inexcusable.
That is not to say that the people leading the CNCI are not intelligent, but it is to say they are not serious. They are detached from the real world of cyber threats and information operations and live in a world where all problems are solved by what Robert Steele accurately refers to as contactor vapor ware.
The Mesh networks research group is formed by research and developer teams throughout all the world which are involved in active wireless mesh networks projects.
The Mesh Networks Research Group is focused in the mesh networks field and cover aspects like privacy, security, routing protocols, mobile mesh networks and roaming. All the members of this group are concerned about the importance of open source projects when sharing and spreading knowledge. The open source concept applies to use open routing protocols for ensuring interoperability among networks and open monitoring and test platforms.
