Image via Wikipedia Notes from Gareth Jones “Organizational Theory Design and Change, Sixth Edition” notes from the preface and introduction: Jones is looking for a relevance and current textbook to summarize theory – in – use, and notes that he wants to capture the most important global themes and promises to include the following ideas: […]
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Looking behind the curtain of global warming once more
Image via Wikipedia An alarming letter from a physicist of great renown, slamming the professional ethic of his peers and their professional organization. he asserts that, just as the military-industrial complex has perverted common sense notions of appropriate defense programs, so to has the research grant gravy train perverted notions of a pure scholarly approach […]
Army budgets and programs under severe environmental (budgetary)pressure
The Army is finally reading the signals from DoD that the budgetary truth has changed. Not only are major programs under review, but our force structure itself is the oibject of scrutiny. We could very easily see a return of a Division based Army once more, organized around major troop installations, acting as a resource […]
Eliot Spitzer on CNN
Image by steve louie via Flickr what a buffoon. Did he run out of hookers to chase? Who thought it was a good idea to give him a microphone …so we can listen to his excellent and reasoned judgment credits Clinton with giving us a budget surplus; blames libertarian economics for the current budget disaster […]
A thought experiment in military logistics and visualization
Image via Wikipedia I am an instructor of logistics and resource operations, and a curriculum designer at the US Army Command & General Staff College at Ft Leavenworth. My 25 yrs of service were as an infantryman and a practitioner of brute force military logistics. having retired, I am trying to add rigor to my […]
A self licking ice cream cone, funded by taxpayers
Image via Wikipedia A classic example of self-licking ice cream cones and how you can convince yourself that bad ideas are good ideas as long as you can fund them with other peoples money On Monday, District residents’ tax dollars went to pay Summer Youth Employment Program participants to attend a Council oversight session at […]
Adios, Civil liberties
Image by 3zooz Photography™[In Zurich <3 ] via Flickr This phenomenon must inevitably lead to the further erosion of our civil liberties. The consequences of planned violent action for political effect, aiming at nothing more than chaos as a precondition for civil disorder, goes far beyond anything the founders ever conceived. The window of opportunity […]
Reflections on strategic leadership
Image via Wikipedia This weekend I really enjoyed a podcast from a current strategic leadership text on the subject of emerging trends in global strategic leadership. Here are the slides: CurrentTrendsInStrategicManagement I compared the discussion in slide 2 “new realities in the 21st century” to the military’s formal description of the “Operational Environment” which we use […]
Obama thinks we are “out” of the mess, thanks to his policies
Image via Wikipedia If there were ever a case of not knowing where you are or what’s going on around you: [Obama]….But he also says the midterm congressional elections could come down to “a choice between the policies that got us into this mess and my policies that got us out of this mess.“ Related […]
The Governor of Alabama doesn’t understand “corporate governance structure”
Image via Wikipedia Bob Riley, governor of Alabama, probably needs to get with Robert Gibbs to find out how that “corporate governance structure” thing is supposed to work, so that he wont embarass himself with statements like: “A key governor on Sunday blasted the lack of leadership in the US response to the worst ever […]