Public Intelligence Blog – Page 3522 – The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.

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editor spinney time — Chuck Spinney Recommends

The essay by Andrew Bacevich (Colonel USA ret.) portrays one of the very worst aspects of the imperial court of Versailles on the Potomac — collective amnesia that opens the door to the grotesque…

Chuck Spinney

The Washington Gossip Machine

Posted By Tom Engelhardt On September 26, 2010

Prisoners of War

Bob Woodward and all the president’s men (2010 edition)
by Andrew J. Bacevich

Phi Beta Iota: Both of the above appear at the same link. While worth a full read to appreciate the self-serving devotion of Bob Woodward and the ongoing duplicity of the Pentagon and hypocrisy of the White House, there is nothing here that Noam Chomsky, Gore Vidal and many others–including Marine Corps General Smedley Butler, have not been saying for decades. Col Bacevich's book is a short continuation of the same theme, what Chuck Spinney has been calling since the 1980's “Versailles on the Potomac.” Missing from the Washington-based drama is the far deeper story being examined outside the beltway, to wit, “Is Washington in enemy hands?”

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Journal: Self-Organizing Emergence from Chaos

Blog Wisdom, Collective Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Methods & Process

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← The Real-time Debut of Engaging Emergence

Making Sense Out of Chaos: An Audio Interview

Posted on September 26, 2010 by PeggyHolman

I did an interview on September 7th for the Community Learning Exchange –CLExchangeonair with Cheryl Fields on Blog Talk Radio.

EXTRACT:

Early in the book you tell the story of how your own perspective on engaging emergence began. Tell us about that experience?

In the 1990′s I managed software projects. I was excellent at figuring out the steps that needed to be done and then making those steps happen — planning the work and then working the plan.

As the projects got bigger and more complex, I ran into a one that involved enough people with different opinions that that old approach just didn’t cut it.

Fortunately, I had the opportunity to work with someone who understood how to work in a different way. Once I experienced it, I had to learn more.

2010/09/262010/09/26

Reference: 21st Century Leadership-12 Guidelines

Blog Wisdom, Collective Intelligence, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corporations, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Methods & Process

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The Facebook Generation vs. the Fortune 500

Gary Hamel

….in the future, any company that lacks a vital core of Gen F employees will soon find itself stuck in the mud.

With that in mind, I compiled a list of 12 work-relevant characteristics of online life. These are the post-bureaucratic realities that tomorrow’s employees will use as yardsticks in determining whether your company is “with it” or “past it.” In assembling this short list, I haven’t tried to catalog every salient feature of the Web’s social milieu, only those that are most at odds with the legacy practices found in large companies.

1. All ideas compete on an equal footing.
2. Contribution counts for more than credentials.
3. Hierarchies are natural, not prescribed.
4. Leaders serve rather than preside.
5. Tasks are chosen, not assigned.
6. Groups are self-defining and self-organizing
7. Resources get attracted, not allocated.
8. Power comes from sharing information, not hoarding it.
9. Opinions compound and decisions are peer-reviewed.
10. Users can veto most policy decisions.
11. Intrinsic rewards matter most.
12. Hackers are heroes.

Read full post in glorious detail.

Tip of the Hat to Steve Denning at LinkedIn.

Phi Beta Iota: We've been skirting all of these since 1988, and even more so since we opened Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) in 1994. Please do read the full articulation, and pass it on. It's is the single best summary we have found to date.

Graphic: Principles of War versus Principles of Peace

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Reference: Blogs and Bullets–No Brains for Now

Cultural Intelligence, Mobile, Technologies, Tools

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USIP New Media Low Footprint — Full Source Online

Tip of the Hat to Pierre Levy at LinkedIn.

Phi Beta Iota: This excellent but truncated report has the same problem we saw in Global Governance 2025–it just does not “get” the dual facts that a) governments no longer rule and b) connecting is not the main event–sense-making is the main event and it is 5-10 years off. THAT will be the revolution. Better–and earlier–insights remain those in 2002 Pinkham (US) Citizen Advocacy in the Information Age and Reference: Social Search 101. The future was defined in 1989, then again in 1992, 1998, and on and on. Connecting all humans with all information in all languages all the time is the end-game. Anything less lacks integrity.

2010/09/26

Journal: To Risk or Not to Risk, that Is the Question

Cultural Intelligence

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The problem with putting it all on the line…

is that it might not work out.

The problem with not putting it all on the line is that it will never (ever) change things for the better.

Not much of a choice, I think. No risk, no art. No art, no reward.

Phi Beta Iota: The Weberian concept of bureaucracy is all about risk reduction and knowledge hoarding. Governments are not only bureaucracies, they are bureaucracies created in the wrong way for the wrong reasons. Public philosophy is now entering a new era, a renaissance. Eventually we anticipate overlapping governments that will be open, hybrid, strictly in the public interest with corruption impossible due to total transparency, AND governments will be intelligence-driven, about design, about the “art” of creating a prosperous world at peace that optimizes human creativity.

2010/09/252010/09/25

Worth a Look: SectorPublic, Other IT Blogs

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Right now, three entities contributing to the public good – citizens, the public sector, and private businesses – are incredibly dependent on each other. Citizens need support from government and the broader public sector, and jobs from businesses. The public sector needs the support of the private sector through products and services, and needs input, ideas, and other contributions from its citizens. And private sector organizations increasingly seek to stand for something more than merely selling products – they seek to help the public sector and contribute to citizens’ well-being.

SECTOR: PUBLIC lives where these three entities meet. If necessity is the mother of invention, there has been no period in our lifetimes during which technological innovation is able to have such a great impact on civic progress. Every day at SECTOR: PUBLIC, we will discuss cutting-edge technology, share public sector stories, and provide thought leadership about how American progress and public good are being both disrupted and benefited by the rapid innovation era we are living through.

NOTEWORTHY: What is the Vision for Open Government Entrepreneurship? by Mark Drapeau

Tip of the Hat to Bob Gourley at LinkedIn.

Phi Beta Iota: The intellectual philosophy on display here is HYBRID. Below are the other websites identified by Sector Public as being valuable.