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view original / fastcompany.com July 3rd 2012 6:21 AM Now inscribed on the Library of Congress, James Madison's words are as true today as they were in 1829: “The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.” In forging such a nation, …
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Bloomberg.com July 2, 2012 Bloomberg News Overseeing a series of mandated U.S. budget cuts in the 1980s and 1990s, former White House official Barry Anderson was none too popular with agency officials as he insisted that the reductions be applied uniformly. Anderson recalls a minuscule 0.0013 cut to all domestic programs in 1991 that had …
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Los Angeles Times July 2, 2012 Pg. 13 Is there any organization outside of Hollywood more prey to intellectual fads than the Department of Defense? A decade ago the buzzword around the Pentagon was "transformation." Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld wanted to force radical change to take advantage of information technology. So the individual …
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view original / blogs.hbr.org "A 'no' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble." So said Mahatma Gandhi, and we all know how his conviction played out on the world stage. But what is less well known is how this same discipline played out privately with …
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Blogger's note: rebuttal to the 18 June Waltz piece. Boston Globe July 1, 2012 ARE YOU concerned about Tehran's drive for nuclear weapons? Political scientist Kenneth Waltz isn't. A senior research scholar at Columbia University and former president of American Political Science Association, Waltz writes in the new issue of Foreign Affairs that it's time …
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SmallWarsJournal.com June 29, 2012 This Week at War In my Foreign Policy column, I apply CSBA's latest report on coping with defense austerity to the Pentagon's current predicaments. The reality of defense budget "sequestration" -- the threat of an across-the-board 10 percent cut to most of the Pentagon's spending accounts -- is now beginning to …
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View Original To a small business owner, to an employee--to anyone--there is only one way to determine success. That's right. One. No kaleidoscope, no cornucopia, no "we're all snowflakes," no we're all individuals. One. Sure, success in business and in life means different things to different people. (Very different things in some instances; check out …
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view original / inc.com Artists, designers, and programmers are different, difficult, and--depending on your strategy--delightful. When I tell people that I spent 13 years producing radio and TV programs and then another 15 years running software companies, they always look puzzled and ask: What's the connection? The answer is simple: talent. Both industries depend crucially …
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View Original / The Diplomat Failure to formulate a grand strategy will only further fuel talk of American decline. That's no more so the case than it is for Asia. It takes no great leap of imagination to realize the obvious: the world shows clear signs of increasing disorder. Consider recent events: thousands massacred in …
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The most successful people in business approach their work differently than most. See how they think--and why it works. I'm fortunate enough to know a number of remarkably successful people. Regardless of industry or profession, they all share the same perspectives and beliefs. And they act on those beliefs: 1. Time doesn't fill me. I …
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