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Worth a Look: Don Vandergriff – Raising the Bar – Creating and Nurturing Adaptability to Deal with the Changing Face of War

5 Star, Force Structure (Military), Leadership, Military & Pentagon Power
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Don Vandergriff's experiences, research and interaction with fellow military professionals suggest that a cultural revolution within the U.S. military is essential if the nation is to successfully adapt and prevail in the emerging 4th Generation Warfare (4GW) or asymmetric warfare threat environment. An Army cultural revolution has three parts:

1. Strategic leaders must change a counterproductive array of long-established beliefs including many laws, regulations and policies, which are based on out-of-date assumptions.

2. Military leaders must drive and sustain a military cultural evolution through effective education and training of the next generation(s) of leaders in a system that is flexible enough to evolve alongside emerging changes in, and lessons from, war, society and technology.

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Worth a Look: Don Vandergriff – Manning the Future Legions of the United States – Finding and Developing Tomorrow’s Centurions

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An Industrial Age model continues to shape the way the Army approaches its recruiting, personnel management, training, and education. This outdated personnel management paradigm―designed for an earlier era―has been so intimately tied to the maintenance of Army culture that a self-perpetuating cycle has formed, diminishing the Army's attempts to develop adaptive leaders and institutions.

This cycle can be broken only if the Army accepts rapid evolutionary change as the norm of the new era. Recruiting the right people, then having them step into an antiquated organization, means that many of them will not stay as they find their ability to contribute and develop limited by a centralized, hierarchical organization. Recruiting and retention data bear this out.

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Robert Steele: Donald Trump’s Future — Over Reince Priebus’s Dead Body…

07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government
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As things now stand, Donald Trump will not finish his first term. This will be Donald Trump's fault — and Reince Priebus' fault.

I explicitly accuse Reince Priebus of betraying Donald Trump by sacrificing the protection of Donald Trump and the longer-term healing of the country to Priebus's own vested interests in protecting the short-term triumph of the Republican Party, and the pedophile Establishment of which Priebus is at a minimum an enabler and protector if not an actual participant, not only in relation to the nation-wide pedophilia cabal, but the Wisconsin and Wyoming axis of impunity that will show the Franklin Scandal in Nebraska to be the teaser that it was.

I explicitly accuse Priebus of favoring the two-party tyranny that hates Donald Trump and controls 30% of the eligible voters, over an Electoral Reform Act that would legitimize Donald Trump with the 26% who voted against him and the 47% who did not vote at all, and in so doing, empower Trump beyond the two-party tyranny, allowing Trump to survive the inevitable demise of the Republican Party.

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John Perkins: Stopping Economic Cannibalism

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Seeing Wetiko: We Must Reject Economic Cannibalism

When Milton Friedman won the Nobel Prize in Economics, he promoted the current story: “the only responsibility of business is to maximize profits, regardless of the social and environmental costs.” The rules governing business ever since reflect that story. That was in 1976, a time when financial capital was considered in short supply and nature abundant. No one was talking about peak oil or climate change. But that is no longer true. The situation has changed. The story and the rules must also change.

Tip of the Hat to Ty Simpson.

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Glistening Deepwater: Piloting the Planet

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Who Will Pilot the Planet to Safety?

Our planet is being poorly managed to the detriment of all living beings, a situation which must be faced head on if humanity hopes to continue to exist into the long term. Whilst this may at face value seem an extreme position, there is in fact a body of considered research in a number of fields to back up the statement. The working title of this project suggests that, using the analogy of the earth as a life sustaining “space ship”, there appears to be no-one actively, consciously, or responsibly on the flight deck. What it seems we need is a process by which the guidance systems for continuance of higher intelligent life can be activated, and populated. This is a call to action for fellows and funding so this project can produce complete documentation as soon as possible.  Website: http://i-imagineer.info/planet-pilot/

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Michel Bauwens: A New Post-Capitalist Ecosystem of Value Creation

Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence
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A new post-capitalist ecosystem of value creation

How to build the world we want within the world we want to transcend.

The peer-to-peer capacity to relate to each other over the Internet entails the emergence of what Yochai Benkler in the The Wealth of Networks called ‘commons-based peer production' (CBPP). CBPP is a new pathway of value creation and distribution, where peer-to-peer infrastructures allow individuals to communicate, self-organize and, ultimately, co-create non-rivalrous use value, in the form of digital commons of knowledge, software and design.