Marcus Aurelius: Toxic Army Leadership Casts Long Shadow – Not Just Generals but Field Grade Also

While many of you criticize WaPo, believe this is a real and growing problem within Army.  I have read both Ward and O’Reilly DoDIG reports — shocking.  IMHO, if 5 percent of what’s in those reports is 10 percent true, those two generals should be going to Disciplinary Barracks at Leavenworth.  Yet both cases have …

Marcus Aurelius: Secretary Harold Brown on Cutting Service Secretaries

Dr. Brown paints Service Secretaries, in the terms my father would have used, as “spare gear.”) A Better Place To Cut To protect military programs, get rid of redundant service secretaries By Harold Brown Washington Post, October 19, 2012, Pg. 21 The four military services in the Defense Department differ in their roles, missions and …

SmartPlanet: 4 Reasons Disruptive Innovation Fails – The Big One: Tyranny Represses Technology

Four reasons why meaningful, disruptive innovation fails By Andrew Nusca | October 25, 2012 “Why can’t we solve big problems?” asks Jason Pontin in MIT’s Technology Review. Technologist Paul Carr recently described the term disruption as “the faddish Silicon Valley concept which essentially boils down to, “let us do whatever we want, otherwise we’ll bully …

Yoda: Liquid Democracy – How Pirates Do It….

Ethical this is.  Intelligent this is.  Next this is. LiquidDemocracy e.V. The Liquid Democracy Association is a non-profit and non-partisan organisation that works on innovative ideas and projects for democratic participation. Our goal is to establish a transparent democratic principle in both the political and social domain based on strengthening the citizens’ participation. We are …

Michel Bauwens: Collaborative Economy Destroying Jobs [and Tax Base] – What’s Next?

Yes, the collaborative economy is destroying jobs. So what’s next? OuShare, 16 October 2012 by Stanislas Jourdan Let’s not be blind: yes, the collaborative economy is destroying a massive number of jobs. Is that a disaster though? It is, if we don’t redefine what ‘job’ and ‘work’ means, and how they relate to income. However, …