Robert Steele with Rob Kall: What Would an Open Source Secretary of Defense Look Like?

What Would an Open Source Secretary of Defense Look Like? by Rob Kall OpEdNews 25 December 2018 Interview with Robert David Steele Shortly after James Mattis resigned as Secretary of Defense, I noticed a post from Robert David Steele, whom I have interviewed in the past (Transcript 1, Transcript 2), who is himself a former …

Berto Jongman: Beacon and Warning: Sherman Kent, Scientific Hubris, and the CIA’s Office of National Estimates

Beacon and Warning: Sherman Kent, Scientific Hubris, and the CIA’s Office of National Estimates J. Peter Scoblic, a doctoral candidate at Harvard Business School, is a fellow in the International Security Program at New America and the author of U.S. vs. Them: Conservatism in the Age of Nuclear Terror. “From bias to probabilities, Kent anticipated …

Penguin: Harvard Business Review on Why Open Innovation Fails – Scientists are Selfish, Do Not Play Well With Others…

Why Do Open Innovation Efforts Fail? Scientists Want to Solve Problems Themselves It took us months to realize what was going on here: The most resistant scientists and engineers saw open source methods as a fundamental challenge to their professional identities. They defined themselves as “problem solvers,” but open innovation crowdsourcing platforms didn’t let them …