War, Chaos, and Business
The Marines think so. “Is Warfighting Enough?” by Chet Richards and Don Vandergriff is now available in the February 2008 edition of the Marine Corps Gazette.
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The Critical Incident Management Institute at Greenville (SC) Tech will host the first annual Adaptive Leadership Symposium on March 19, 2008. The focus of the symposium will be creating leaders (and therefore organizations) that can use the OODA loop model to survive crises and thrive during periods of rapid change.
In his first visit to the Detroit auto show since becoming Toyota’s president in 2005, Katsuaki Watanabe used this very public forum to convey a passionate plea to his employees on Monday to take personal responsibility for the quality of Toyota cars and trucks.”Each individual must carry the responsibility” for ensuring quality, from design to [...]
By Chuck Spinney
Opining about Obama and Iowa, Bob Hebert, NYT, 5 Jan 2008, said
The Clintons, especially, have seemed baffled by the winds of change. They mounted a peculiar argument against Senator Obama, acknowledging that voters wanted change but insisting that you can’t achieve change by doing things differently. Senator Hillary Clinton has had a devil [...]
Ford, which just ended 76 years as the second largest US automaker, and GM, whose market share has dropped by more than 50% since the early 1980s, illustrate what can happen to organizations whose orientations fail to trigger, via the Implicit Guidance and Control Link, actions that will be effective in influencing the course of events.
This [...]