view original / theleaderlab.org Over the past 50 years, strategy has been examined, factored and reduced to a few simple formulas. In that time, strategy has moved from the realm of senior leaders to the hoards MBAs and consultants. That’s the thrust of the argument Cynthia Montgomery makes in The Strategist: Be the Leader Your Business Needs. Montgomery …
Pentagon Preps Chopping Block For Next Round Of Base Closures
Washington Times April 27, 2012 Pg. 1 By Rowan Scarborough, The Washington Times Defense Department officials are quick to say the formal process of selecting U.S. military bases for closure will not begin until Congress says so. But people inside the Pentagon already are talking about candidates for the politically charged process that often triggers …
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Decline or Decadence? – Victor Davis Hanson – National Review Online
View Original / Victor Davis Hanson Almost daily we read of America’s “waning power” and “inevitable decline,” as observers argue over the consequences of defense cuts and budget crises. Yet much of the new American “leading from behind” strategy is more a matter of choice than of necessity. Apparently, both left-wing critics of U.S. foreign …
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What Doesn’t Motivate Creativity Can Kill It by Steve Kramer, Teresa Amabile
blogs.hbr.org / view original Management is widely viewed as a foe of innovation. The thinking goes that too much management strangles innovation (just let a thousand flowers bloom!). But we have found a much more nuanced picture. You really can manage for innovation, but it starts by knowing what drives creativity in the people who generate and develop the …
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The war over defense by James Jay Carafano
Original Article / James Jay Carafano The U.S. Armed Forces are in quite a battle these days. They’re caught between a president determined to make substantial cuts in defense investments and a Congress increasingly intolerant with wasteful spending. All this while following a Rube Goldberg set of legislative mandates and having a nation to defend. …
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The Four Worst Innovation Assassins by Scott Anthony
view original / blogs.hbr.org/ by SCOTT ANTHONY Is there a corporate leader who doesn't extol the virtues of innovation these days? Yet if innovation is so important, why do so many companies have so much trouble with it? The reflexive response is that it is a human capital problem — that is, that most people just don't have …
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Washington Double-Talk On Nukes By Walter Pincus
Washington Post April 24, 2012 Pg. 17 Fine Print The United States needs a consistent position on nonproliferation if its efforts to lower the nuclear weapons threat is to be taken seriously. The past two weeks prove the point. On Thursday, India successfully tested what it called its first intercontinental ballistic missile, the Agni V. …
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Defense Department Plans New Intelligence Gathering Service
New York Times April 24, 2012 By Eric Schmitt WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is revamping its spy operations to focus on high-priority targets like Iran and China in a reorganization that reflects a shift away from the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan that have dominated America’s security landscape for the past decade. Under the …
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Strategic Stability In Today’s Nuclear World By Henry A. Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft
Washington Post April 23, 2012 Pg. 13 A New START treaty reestablishing the process of nuclear arms control has recently taken effect. Combined with reductions in the U.S. defense budget, this will bring the number of nuclear weapons in the United States to the lowest overall level since the 1950s. The Obama administration is said …
China, Russia Run Joint Naval Drills
Boston Globe April 23, 2012 Pg. 3 BEIJING - China and Russia launched joint naval exercises Sunday that highlight warming ties between their militaries and growing cooperation in international affairs. Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said the six days of drills feature simulated antiaircraft, antisubmarine, and search-and-rescue operations, including electronic countermeasures and other sensitive technologies. Retired …
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