Yoda: 21st Century Leadership – 15 Aspects

Governance
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Got Crowd? BE the Force!
Got Crowd? BE the Force!

15 Ways Successful People Approach Life Differently

RULES ONLY:  1. They hate playing politics. 2. They love when others win. 3. They desperately want to see ideas come to fruition. 4. They're meta-thinkers. 5. They prefer to make or enhance the rules. 6. They believe nothing is sacred. 7. They love solving problems. 8. They're great at self-assessment. 9. They embrace nontechnical feedback. 10. They actively create their future selves. 11. They adore taking things off their plates. 12. They're awesome at leveraging self-reward. 13. They believe they're in total control . . . 14. . . . So their egos don't suffer when they fail. 15. They do everything with intent.

Steven Aftergood: CRS on Microbead Threat to Water Quality

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Steven Aftergood

Microbeads: An Emerging Water Quality Issue

Claudia Copeland, Specialist in Resources and Environmental Policy (ccopeland@crs.loc.gov, 7-7227)
July 20, 2015 (IN10319)

EXTRACT

Microbeads are synthetic particles made of either polyethylene or polypropylene plastic. …  Because microbeads are so small, most wastewater treatment plant technology is not capable of removing them from the wastestream. Most microbeads do not biodegrade, as they require high heat processing to break down, which municipal sewage systems are typically unable to do.

Full report below the fold.

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Reflections on Peter Drucker from the Grave

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Robert David Steele Vivas
Robert David Steele Vivas

#bigideas

I do miss Peter Drucker. I also think often of him, and Frank Lloyd Wright and many others, such as Russell Ackoff (“stop doing the wrong things righter, do the right things”). I use them to remind myself that it takes a quarter-century or more — and generally some cataclysmic failure — before the C-level and SES/DISL mind-sets are ready to listen to new ideas.

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Howard Rheingold: Networked Knowledge & Combinatorial Creativity

Advanced Cyber/IO
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Howard Rheingold

This beautiful meditation on the networked nature of knowledge and collaboration turns on the fulcrum of attention to information.

Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity

How we choose to pay attention, and relate to information and each other shapes who we become, shapes our creative destiny and, in turn, shapes our experience of the world. And, in my mind, there’s nothing more important than that.

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Eagle: Economic Grace of Social Credit

#OSE Open Source Everything, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence
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300 Million Talons...
300 Million Talons…

The Economic ‘Grace' of Social Credit

Christian philosophy holds that it is a major sin to make an end of a means. The rational purpose and end of production is consumption, not to create work (a means). An economic system should provide goods and services for mankind as efficiently as possible with minimal trouble and effort for all concerned.

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Berto Jongman: Cell Hack of Air-Gapped Computers

IO Impotency
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Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Researchers Hack Air-Gapped Computer With Simple Cell Phone

Phi Beta Iota: It's a pity US and Israel did not join in 1994 to commit to secure open source communications and computing — if absolutely trustworthy they would dominate the world marketplace by now. This vulnerability joins the long-known Chinese ability to ride electrical power circuits into US national security and commerical computers not connected to the Internet.