Powerpoint presentation: Standing up a culture through its natural social network dynamics to withstand military intervention and empower it to extinguish its “bad ideas” like [...read the full article]
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The Information Age is giving way to the Conversation Age and all the difficulties that implies. Today’s complex interconnected world is all about … - *building relationships, * trust, *sharing information, * flexible collaborations on a global scale, *and redefining who we are and how we work together; The world is interconnected, and the conversation has begun. New processes are needed to enable individuals/ groups/organizations to move forward successfully in this new [...read the full article] Terrorism is “a war amongst the people” so our traditional answers cast in stark relief the limits of our knowledge, the utility of force and the efficacy of our institutions. Trapped in a paradigm of yesterday’s answers, listening to institutional voices whose expiry date has long passed and a future locked into just adding more of the same, America we have a problem. When our development-institutional complex says physical infrastructure is the answer to stabilization, we may want to look at the reality. Over 460 schools have been bombed or closed in Afghanistan and in the Swat Valley of Pakistan alone 200 plus [...read the full article] We need to move from the model of “Arsenal of Democracy” to “Arsenal of Change,” the following pivot points forge a way beyond current economic, political and military options and tools. Whereas our encounter with the natural complex of terrorism, the cornerstone of our institutions are therefore inadequate. We must search for alternative voices beyond current institutional self interest setting America’s new directions. Whereas a failed state may harbor terrorists, it is a weakened culture that creates and sustains terrorism (with its inability to sort out bad ideas and spoilers from needed [...read the full article] |
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