Patrick Meier: Stages of Resistance to Innovation — From Naval Gunfire to Blind Spys

From Gunfire at Sea to Maps of War: Profound Implications for Humanitarian Innovation MIT Professor Eric von Hippel is the author of Democratizing Innovation, a book I should have read when it was first published seven years ago. The purpose of this blog post, however, is to share some thoughts on “Gunfire at Sea: A Case Study …

Review: The Zen Leader – 10 Ways to Go From Barely Managing to Leading Fearlessly

Ginny Whitelaw 5.0 out of 5 stars 6 Stars, Spectacularly SImple, Foundation Book for Epoch B Collective Self-Governance,May 21, 2012 I’ve been a driven over-achiever most of my life, and only started emerging from the “because I said so” culture so characteristic of the Marine Corps and the Central Intelligence Agency, when I realized in …

Review: Polarity Management – Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems

Barry Johnson 5.0 out of 5 stars Much Less Complicated Than Expected, a Great Workbook,April 16, 2012 Amazon Verified Purchase(What’s this?) I bought this back in December 2011 when I was scrounging around for books on panarchy (see for instance, Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems. It stayed in my pile as other …

Worth A Look: Understanding 9/11 and 9/11 RECAP

Precedent works: Project for a New American Century Post-Event Illuminations: 2006  Endgame: The Blueprint for Victory in the War on Terror 2007 Wesley Clark interview (March 2007): “We plan to take out 7 countries in 5 years” From Niels Groeneveld at Facebook: VIDEO:  9/11 Attack or Godsend (German and British Ministers) Decision to Invade Afghanistan …

Search: public administration in 21 century

UPDATE: Abstract modified by Tom Atlee New Abstract posted. 4 Comments Received Harrison Owen: Public Administration in the 21st Century In the Dark of Night: Public Administration in the 21st Century Harrison Owen: Public Administration in the 21st Century II In the Dark of the Night: Public Administration in the 21st Century II Preliminary reception:  …

In the Dark of the Night: Public Administration in the 21st Century II

Responding to  Harrison Owen: Public Administration in the 21st Century II. I think of consciousness from two perspectives.  Both may seem plodding.  I don’t think of it in terms of evolution, understood as involving some novel emergence, like growing a new organ. An improvement of consciousness occurs within the kind of physical and social makeup …