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growthink.com / view original Every business needs a vision - a clear definition of what you'd like your business to become in the future. And, every business needs a set strategy - a definition and plan of how your business is going to reach this vision. All the key elements -- what you sell, to …
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New York Times May 6, 2012 Pg. SR7 News Analysis “IT’S a boy,” Edward Teller exulted after the world’s first hydrogen bomb exploded in 1952 with a force 1,000 times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. From the start, the nuclear era seethed with sexual allusions. Military officers joked about the phallic symbolism …
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New York Times May 6, 2012 Pg. SR13 Dubai, United Arab Emirates--TRAVELING in the post-Awakening Arab world, I have been most struck by how few new leaders have emerged from the huge volcanic political eruption here. By new leaders, I don’t just mean people who win elections, I mean leaders — men and women with …
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view original / bigthink.com / Richard Tafel Tafel's five steps for changing the system from within: 1. Find a focus. Tafel is fond of referring to the "trim tab, the little rudder on a boat that when you change it can change a whole system. " The first question activists should ask themselves is, what one rule could we change that would …
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SmallWarsJournal.com May 4, 2012 This Week at War In my Foreign Policy column, I discuss the fragile assumptions behind the new Strategic Partnership Agreement with Afghanistan and explain why U.S. policymakers should have a Plan B ready. President Barack Obama's sudden appearance in Afghanistan on May 1, a calculated attempt to display his administration's foreign-policy expertise and …
New York Post May 4, 2012 Pg. 29 If the White House hoped that releasing documents scored by Seal Team Six at Osama's hideaway would ease anxiety about the threat of terrorism, it badly misjudged the value of reading bin Laden's mail. The government turned over a cache of the captured documents to the Combating …
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view original / theatlantic.com From Vietnam to Afghanistan, 12-month deployments and institutional norms have made long-term planning more difficult. In 2010, the U.S. adopted a new tactic in southern Afghanistan: it began to bulldoze entire villages to clear them of IEDs. The policy -- reminiscent of Vietnam, of destroying villages to save them -- spoke to a deeper issue …
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View original Lack of Trust – Caused by Institutional Corruption – Is Killing the Economy The signs are everywhere: Americans have lost trust in our institutions. Deeper question: how do we get better?
View original / by Deloitte? By leveraging the planning and performance management cycles as well as analytical capabilities, CFOs can minimize strategic ambiguity and establish strategic clarity for the organization and its stakeholders. In battle, strategic ambiguity can sometimes lead to disastrous results. At Gettysburg, for example, on the first day of the epic Civil …
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View original / David Axe / defense.aol.com The past decade has seen an unlikely revival of a long-grounded technology. Military airships, last operational with the U.S. Navy in the 1960s, took back to the skies, propelled by soaring demand for long-endurance, low-cost aerial surveillance in Iraq and Afghanistan. Per flight hour, an airship costs a …
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