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If you would like to learn more about the reinvention of management, please join me for two days on May 12-13, 2011 in Washington DC in a workshop that is all about cool, innovative and serious fun. More details here.
On hand will be some of the co-creators of the new world of work, including Seth Kahan, author of Getting Change Right
FREE COPY OF BOOK TO ALL WHO ATTEND (MUST RSVP)
In the expanding political debate between the defenders of the Pentagon budget and the deficit hawks, do you feel buried in a mountain of misinformation? Do you puzzle over why years of increasing defense dollars buy steadily shrinking and aging forces? Does our technology give us the essential edge in combat? Has much needed reform made any real progress in the last few years?
We're inviting you to meet, hear and debate the issues with three of the authors of the new handbook/anthology, The Pentagon Labyrinth: 10 Short Essays the Help You Through It. Combined, they have 120 years of experience in the trenches of the ongoing Pentagon military reform battles. You'll have a rare opportunity to take advantage, face to face, of that experience.
The three authors are Tom Christie, Chuck Spinney and Pierre Sprey. (See their bios below.) Danielle Brian, Executive Director of the Project On Government Oversight (POGO), will moderate the discussion.
When: Wednesday, March 9 at 6:00; the formal program starts at 6:30 and will end at 7:30. Afterwards, there will also be an opportunity for more informal discussion.
Where: The Stuart R. Mott House at 122 Maryland Avenue, NE, Washington DC. (See the map; it is “between” the Hart Senate Office Building and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Free hard copies of the book will be available for all who come.
Light refreshments will be served.
RSVP: winslowwheeler@msn.com
The Pentagon Labyrinth: 10 Short Essays to Help You Through It [links to Amazon page]is a 150 page handbook-guide for both newcomers and seasoned observers to cope with the often byzantine nature of defense issues. It is also available for free electronic download at several websites, including the Straus Military Reform Project and the Project On Government Oversight's (POGO).
We hope to see you there.
Find below bios for Tom Christie, Chuck Spinney and Pierre Sprey:
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Phi Beta Iota: Two outcomes have emerged from Tunisia-Egypt: the first human, the second technical. Humans world-wide are emergent against the 44 dictators as well as false democracies such as the USA's GRIFTOPIA–the Power of the Powerless that emerged against the Soviet Union is now global; a strong aspect of this is that the human revolt is non-sectarian–secular corruption exploits sectarian divides, but when all are focused on ending corruption, there is no sectarian divide to exploit. The second is human-technical: crowdsourcing of money combined with a rapidly emerging strategy for creating the Autonomous Internet. 2012 is a year of Awakening & Emergence. What the Pope does in Assisi right now is slated to fail or be relevant, but if the Church wakes up and sees the possibilities, with religions adopting OpenBTS and Autonomous Internet as a means of empowering the faithful to be free with dignity, potent in creating a prosperous world at peace, Assisi is a game changer.
Bahrain, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Egypt, Libya, Libya-UK, Tunesia
Bahrain, Yemen, Egypt, Libya, Libya-Netherlands
“If you’d asked me five years ago what would happen if the U.S. had unemployment in excess of 9% and every prospect of unemployment at incredibly high levels for some years to come, I’d have said there’d be overwhelming political demand for government to do something. In fact there isn’t. What’s happened is we’ve had a near collapse of the idea that government can do anything about this.”
Paul Krugman
Phi Beta Iota: MIT–as with other “establishment” organizations including the US military–just cannot bring itself to acknowledge that the US Government is corrupt, as articulated so ably by Matt Taibi of Rolling Stone in Griftopia–Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America. See also: (DVD): Inside Job.
January 27, 2011
These economists, MIT PhDs all, ponder what remains in the macroeconomist’s toolkit to pull the U.S., and much of the developed world, out of recession. They discuss aspects of fiscal and monetary policy that may prove useful in spurring recovery, as well as the complicating matter of politics.
Ford International Professor of Economics and Department Head, MIT
