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Monday, February 28th, 2005

ORGANIZATIONS, CULTURE AND STRATEGIC THINKING

Rob at Businesspundit has a trio of posts worth looking at today. While the focus of Zenpundit is foreign policy and national security, the strategic thinking and organizational culture issues discussed here have many analogs with modern business structures.

Rob’s first post is on the intangible but vital aspects of ” Branding” in terms of identity. His second deals with leadership and organizational culture ” fit” as competing values. His third is on change and execution of strategy and the questions Rob raises could apply as well to the foreign policy bureaucracy or the military.

My personal bias is toward favoring an effective strategy. A bumbling leader who is a poor tactician with an effective strategy will be even more at sea without one, not even having a goal in sight. They will simply react to events, ad hoc.

Check it out.

Monday, February 28th, 2005

A SYSTEM PERTURBATION, ONCE BEGUN, CONTINUES TO UNFOLD ( UPDATED)

I have previously blogged on why the murder of Dutch artist, film director Theo van Gogh, by an Islamist extremist can be considered a ” System Perturbation“.

More evidence is accumulating that a significant tipping point was reached with that murder, the Dutch are sudenly keen to emigrate and escape what they now see as an onslaught of unassimilable, intolerant, Islamist extremism. The Dutch government, by having previously failed to maintain the normal enforcement of Holland’s political and cultural Rule-set with new immigrant communities, now finds their people ” voting with their feet”.

UPDATE: The tiny Netherlands increases its share of the burden in the Terror War


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