Tag: leadership
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“Army recruits shortfall blamed on Iraq war critics”
This is a Yahoo story, which means it will be gone in an hour or so, but the gist of it is that the Pentagon and some Congressmen are blaming people who call the war a mistake, and media types who only show the bad side of the war for the failure of the Army…
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the Presidential address
I’m no longer resentful of the President and his embodiment of a closed-minded xenophobic, neophobic, religiously zealous, segment of the population. I just think he is pathetic. His entire message this evening was that of a shallow, simpleton defending his actions as successful and righteous in the face of overwhelming evidence of their ongoing failure…
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changing the rules
Seth Godin has a post about how the market leader sets the rules of the game up so that they will always win. (_Well, yeah._) He then goes on to say that changing the rules is the only way to win. This is essentially Godel restated and something I’ve been saying for years: if a…
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down with beige
beige = consensus-building. beige is why industries wither up and die. beige is why there aren’t enough madmen in the city when the barbarians are at the gate to fight them off. beige is lukewarm and mediocre and it is emblematic of death
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fatwa issued against bin Laden
A Spanish clerical council issued a religious decree today, the anniversary of the Madrid train bombings, saying Osama bin Laden has forsaken Islam. Neither it, nor the anniversary of the bombings, made the top stories on NBC News. Will this free other moderate clerics to doing the same? Will this open the door for Iraqi…
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command and control
there is something about command and control that has always bothered me. It’s the pairing… Obviously control is contained in the meaning of command, so in this case, command must be something different in kind from control. I’ve taken to thinking of control as a pejorative. (taken to is probably utterly wrong and completely out…
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What Avista could do…
What could Avista do, today, to shape the day after tomorrow? Of course, they won’t do that, any of it, but they could. Fortune favors the bold, but boring companies make money in spite of being boring… right up to the point where they don’t.
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the January 2005 Proceedings of the USNI
From the article, “Forward from… Bureaucracy” by Cmdr Kenneth Brown, USN: “Absolute power may corrupt absolutely, but overwhelming oversight creates underwhelming results. The greatest technologies and most ingenious military plans are useless in the face of stifling bureaucracy and overbearing regulation. Regardless of what comes of the current transformation initiative, our speed and flexibility of…
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Guns don’t kill people… yeah, right
So the AP is running the story that the Palestinian Authority has banned weapons for civilians. This is a big deal for Chairman Abbas to do politically, and the right thing for the US, Europe, Russia, and China to do in response would be to agree to a moratorium on arms shipments to Israel and…
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Google as the architect of consumer computing
Dvorak thinks that there is a Google OS coming soon, and maybe he’s right. But I think that Google doesn’t need to have an OS, a branded computer, or any other conventional consumer electronic/IT product. I think this because I think they already have what they need to unseat Microsoft, and that they can do…