Handbook: Becoming a Knowledge-Sharing Organization

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handbook-knowledge-sharingBecoming a Knowledge-Sharing Organization : A Handbook for Scaling Up Solutions through Knowledge Capturing and Sharing

This volume offers a simple, systematic guide to creating a knowledge sharing practice in your organization. It shows how to build the enabling environment and develop the skills needed to capture and share knowledge gained from operational experiences to improve performance and scale-up successes. Its recommendations are grounded on the insights gained from the past seven years of collaboration between the World Bank and its clients around the world—ministries and national agencies operating in various sectors—who are working to strengthen their operations through robust knowledge sharing. While informed by the academic literature on knowledge management and organizational learning, this handbook’s operational background and many real-world examples and tips provide a missing, practical foundation for public sector officials in developing countries and for development practitioners. However, though written with a public sector audience in mind, the overall concepts and approaches will also hold true for most organizations in the private sector and the developed world.

Tip of the Hat to Berto Jongman

Review: Sudden Justice – America’s Secret Drone Wars

4 Star, Atrocities & Genocide
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Chris Woods

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Historical Overview of the US Government's Drone Assassination Program, November 23, 2016

This is one of three books on drone assassination that I am reviewing, the other two are Drones and the Future of Armed Conflict: Ethical, Legal, and Strategic Implications and We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age. I was limited in my choices to the books offered by a professional journal for whom I am writing an integrated review, if I had had unlimited choice I would have included Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins and The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program.

All three books — and I suspect the others focused on this topic as well — agree on three things:

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Review: Drones and the Future of Armed Conflict – Ethical, Legal, and Strategic Implications

4 Star, Atrocities & Genocide
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David Cortright, Rachel Fairhurst, Kristen Wall (eds.)

4.0 out of 5 stars Academic-Legal Perspective on the US Drone Assassination Program, November 23, 2016

This is one of three books on drone assassination that I am reviewing, the other two are Sudden Justice: America's Secret Drone Wars (Terrorism and Global Justice) and We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age. I was limited in my choices to the books offered by a professional journal for whom I am writing an integrated review, if I had had unlimited choice I would have included Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins and The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program.

All three books — and I suspect the others focused on this topic as well — agree on three things:

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Review: We Kill Because We Can – From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age

4 Star, Atrocities & Genocide
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Laurie Calhoun

4.0 out of 5 stars Cultural-Ethical-Legal-Practical Indictment of US Drone Assassination Program, November 23, 2016

This is one of three books on drone assassination that I am reviewing, the other two are Sudden Justice: America's Secret Drone Wars (Terrorism and Global Justice) and Drones and the Future of Armed Conflict: Ethical, Legal, and Strategic Implications. I was limited in my choices to the books offered by a professional journal for whom I am writing an integrated review, if I had had unlimited choice I would have included Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins and The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program.

All three books — and I suspect the others focused on this topic as well — agree on three things:

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Jan Oberg: The White Helmets Covert Operation Media Influence Scam — Sweden’s Right Livelihood Award Going to Con Artists

Corruption, IO Deeds of War, Non-Governmental
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Just how grey are the White Helmets and their backers?

Phi Beta Iota: A superb analysis of what appears to be a covert action media influence scam created by a mercenary with the full support of the US, UK, and Arab governments, with the intent of dominating the media narrative about Syria toward the regime change desired by the neo-conservatives and paid for by Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

See Also: Syria @ Phi Beta Iota

Stephen E. Arnold: Free Is Never Free — How Humans And Their Data Are Harvested for Slaughter

Commerce, Corruption, IO Impotency
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In Connected World, Users Are Getting Reared as Slaughter Animals

Yahoo, Facebook, Google, WhatsApp, Instagram and Microsoft all have one thing in common; for any service that they provide for free, they are harnessing your private data to be sold to advertisers.

Mirror UK recently published an Op-Ed titled Who Is Spying on You? What Yahoo Hack Taught Us About Facebook, Google, and WhatsApp in which the author says:

Think about this for a second. All those emails you’ve written and received with discussions about politics and people that were assumed to be private and meant as inside jokes for you and your friends were being filtered through CIA headquarters. Kind of makes you wonder what you’ve written in the past few years, doesn’t it?

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