Reference: Perspectives in Terrorism

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Vol 5, No 1 (2011): Perspectives on Terrorism

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A Blast from the Past: Lessons from a Largely Forgotten Incident of State-Sponsored Terrorism Ken Duncan

Internet Websites and Links for (Counter-)Terrorism Research Berto Jongman

Reactions to the War on Terrorism: Origin- Group Differences in the 2007 Pew Poll of U.S. Muslims Clark McCauley, Sarah Scheckter

Situational Awareness in Terrorism and Crime Prevention Glenn P. McGovern

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Phi Beta Iota: We highlight with great regard the contribution of Berto Jongman from The Netherlands, whose map of World Conflict & Human Rights remains a classic reference work.

A Challenge from the Editor of Pentagon Labyrinth

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Two new reviews of The Pentagon Labyrinth: 10 Short Essays to Help You Through It appeared yesterday and today.

One is from Dina Rasor; “A New Guide to Reform the Pentagon Even if You Feel Overwhelmed by the Mess” appears at Truthout.org.

The other is from David Isenberg; “How to Take Proper Aim at a Target Rich Environment” appears at Huffington Post.

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Reference: Open Source Insurgency

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2010-12-04 How WikiLeaks builds a global open source insurgency

2010-11-21 Global Guerrillas (John Robb) on Open Source Jihad

2010-03-12 JOURNAL: OSW Standing Orders (11 of them)

2010-02-16 dkgreenroots: oil addiction,  open source insurgency & black swans: Part II

2009-11-17 Open Source Insurgency through Software Tools

2009-09-14  An Early Plan for Open Source Peaceful Evolution

2008-03-23 Starting an Open Source Insurgency

2005-10-15 Original NYC Op Ed: The Open-Source War

Reference: Reinventing Management

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Feb. 26 2011 – 12:42 pm By STEVE DENNING

My article, The Reinvention of Management” has just been published in a special issue of Strategy & Leadership on “outracing change: learning to foresee, adapt, re-invent and innovate faster.” (Strategy & Leadership, 2011, Vol. 39 Issue: #2, pp.9 – 17)

The article explains why business leaders and writers are increasingly exploring a fundamental rethinking of the basic tenets of management. It synthesizes a number of books including Umair Haque’s  The New Capitalist Manifesto, The Power of Pull by John Hagel, John Seely Brown and Lang Davison and my own book, The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management. The article shows how management is being reinvented with five fundamental shifts:

  • the firm’s goal (a shift from inside-out to outside-in);
  • the role of managers (a shift from controller to enabler);
  • the mode of coordination (from command and control to dynamic linking);
  • the values practiced (a shift from value to values); and
  • the communications (a shift from command to conversation).

The raison d’être of the firm changes from a focus on reducing transaction costs to scalable collaboration, learning and innovation. The shifts are interdependent: if only some shifts are made, the firm will slide back into hierarchical bureaucracy.

By adopting a people-centered goal, a people-centered role for managers, a people-centered coordination mechanism, people-centered values and people-centered communication the leaders of a firm can focus on the people who are its customers.

The article is available here.

Reference: The Global Democratic Revolution Anew

07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Analysis, Articles & Chapters, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Military, Peace Intelligence, Reform

The great events in tthe Arab world are part of a wider hidtorical process of worldwide democrativ advance.But the distrous events of the post-9/11 decade have made it far slower and more conflictual than needed, says Martin Shaw*

EXTRACT:  “…everywhere, the unifying thread is opposition to authoritarianism and aspiration to democratic rule; and the sense of a psychological break with the dictatorial past is unmistakable.”

* Martin Shaw is professorial fellow in international relations and human rights at Roehampton University, London, and an honorary research professor of international relations at the University of Sussex. His books include War and Genocide: Organised Killing in Modern Society (Polity, 2003); The New Western Way of War: Risk-Transfer War and its Crisis in Iraq (Polity, 2005); and What is Genocide? (Polity, 2007).

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Phi Beta Iota: One of the most concise, thoughtful, and inspiring summaries of both the present prospects and the recent failed past, all in the context of the past half century.

Reference: Spengler @ Asia Times Online

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20110226 The Complete Spengler Single posting of all past posts with links.

Selected posts:

20110215 The Internet bubble in Middle East politics

20090418 And Spengler is …[David P. Goldman]

20090209 Who are the ‘extraordinary' Muslims?

2009 Save less, breed more

20090330 The gods are stupid

Phi Beta Iota: “Spengler” is channeled by David P Goldman, associate editor of First Things.  Routinely cited by Contributing Editor Chuck Spinney, Spengler is a gifted analyst with a very large lance for popping intellectual and moral bubbles in Western discourse.