Essay: Dumb-dumb bullets As a decision-making aid, PowerPoint is a poor tool BY T.X. HAMMES

Another great email impacting leadership and the art of decision making by my friend COL (ret.) TX Hammes, who is the author of the book Sling and Stone.  For further details on what PowerPoint has done when laid over the culture of control see Chuck Spinney’s blaster from nine years ago, www.d-n-i.net/fcs/comments/c353.htm http://www.afji.com/2009/07/4061641 Every year, [...]

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Groupthink, Intellectual Arrogance & the Madness of Alan Greenspan

http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,635051,00.html This article should be read by anyone trying to understand the current financial mess or who is interested in understanding why it is so difficult to reform any institution that has allowed itself to be captured by its own dogma, like the Federal Reserve Board, General Motors, or the Pentagon. The pathway to disaster [...]

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On War #310: One Step Forward, One Step Back

William S. Lind 7 July 2009 According to the July 3 Cleveland Plain Dealer, President Barack Obama said something very interesting last week. He told the AP that he has “a very narrow definition of success when it comes to our national security interests” in Afghanistan. “And that is that al-Qa’ida and its affiliates cannot [...]

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Our Great Nation is Screwed!

My friend Andrew Cockburn has launched yet another stunning tubesteak. Read it and you will understand why we don’t need “change we can believe in.” We already have the best government money can buy.  On the 4th of July, I was driving with my wife to see my step son and his family when we drove by the [...]

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