The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then it appears in the Harvard Business Review, and then you win while Harvard claims it was their idea… Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (apocryphal) The Big Idea: Creating Shared Value by Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer How to reinvent capitalism—and unleash a …
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Harrison Owen: Well said. And I rather suspect that the core of the matter is deeper than Culture – and that would be an extended conversation. But it is certainly not about rule change and redesign, I think. Alexander Carpenter: Right on, as your imminent study of evolutionary psychology will confirm. I reckon we don’t …
24 Dec Journal: Get America Working–A Conversation 3 Jan Journal: Get America Working–A Conversation Part II Andrew Carpenter responds (Robert Steele’s opening at end): I offer here a cautionary note in three areas. First, Robert, I get that you have a prior commitment to electoral reform, and that’s your proprietary thing close to your heart. …
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Phi Beta Iota: The author, Michael O’Hanlon, remains one of our most respected commentators on defense, and his suggestions within this document are entirely reasonable. However, he does not go far enough. A 10% reduction of a military-industrial complex budget that has nearly tripled in 30 years is not serious, nor is there innovation in …
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“We’ve Heard All This About American Decline Before.” This time it’s different. It’s certainly true that America has been through cycles of declinism in the past. Campaigning for the presidency in 1960, John F. Kennedy complained, “American strength relative to that of the Soviet Union has been slipping, and communism has been advancing steadily in …
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John J. Mearsheimer Cornerstone, Not the Whole Building January 2, 2011 By no stretch should this book be dismissed as a three. While I might normally have gone with a four, I am settling on five for balance and because the author not only covers an extraordinarily important topic in a sensible measured way, but …
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Wikipedia Biography with Many Links The Macgregor Briefings: An Information Age Vision for the U.S. Army NOTE 1: HTML versions work, PPT do not NOTE 2: Cyber/IO is the enabler of all that he envisions. Warrior’s Rage: The Great Tank Battle of 73 Easting (2009) Transformation Under Fire: Revolutionizing How America Fights (2004) Breaking the …
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