Review: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team–A Leadership Fable
Excellent Training Material, See Also the Workbook, July 20, 2009
The Contested Commons
Michele Flournoy and Shawn Brimley U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings July 2009 Vol. 135/7/1,277 Two officials from the Office of the Secretary of Defense look at a changing and challenging world and what it means for the future of American power. The world is undergoing a profound and lasting shift in the relative balance of power …
2009 The Ultimate Hack: Re-Inventing Intelligence to Re-Engineer the World (Faculty of Advanced Engineering University of British Columbia March 2009)
Handouts (Their Site) PPT (Our Site): 2009 UBC The Ultimate Hack Slides 2.0 FINAL, with Notes) With a tip of the hat the University of British Columbia and Professor John Meech of the Faculty of Advanced Engineering, this is the latest briefing. As with most of my briefings, planned words for brevity can be found …
Review: The New Age of Innovation–Driving Cocreated Value Through Global Networks
Brilliant in Isolation, Annoying for Self-Referential Insularity, August 24, 2008
2009 Homeland Security Today: Vet with a Vision
Anthony Kimery surprised me with this article. I was moved, for I have never seen, other than Alvin Toffler’s much shorter overview in 1993, a more profound appreciation for the public service that I have sought to render. Anthony did his homework, and the coherence, the integration, are the result of his talent at making …
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2009 Intelligence for the President–AND Everyone Else [Full Text Online for Google Translate]
Intelligence for the President–AND Everyone Else How Obama Can Create a Smart Nation and a Prosperous World at Peace By ROBERT DAVID STEELE VIVAS Today’s secret intelligence community costs the U.S. taxpayer over $65 billion a year, and yet, according to General Tony Zinni, USMC (Ret), provides less than 4% of the decision support needed …
2012 U.S. Naval Power in the 21st Century: 450-Ship Navy, <24 Hours to Anywhere, Peace from the Sea -- Full Text Online
I wrote the original Somali piracy overview for US CENTCOM J-2P in 2005–no one wanted to take on the problem. A few years later I was told by both USSOCOM and Navy Irregular Warfare–I am not making this up–that the reason they did not take an interest at the time was that it was “not …
