War, Chaos, and Business
Painted on the side of a building in Indianola MS, B. B. King’s hometown, pointing out overflow parking for the Main Street business district. Don’t worry, it’s paved, although the occasional visit by local wildlife can’t be ruled out.
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Why indeed? What does this simple children’s story tell us about character, adversity, and the grand sweep of life itself? Well, Mike Wyly, Col USMC, Ret., and Founder / Executive Director of the Bossov Ballet Theater, tells you in “Why See Bossov’s Cinderella?“ (24 KB PDF) Mike is one of the godfathers of maneuver warfare, [...]
You certainly wouldn’t want to do it when times are good — the incumbents, flush with cash and the political power it buys, will crush you. You want to strike when they are weak, confused, and fixated on the one thing they understand: slashing costs, that is, customer service.
KATRINA: “BROTHERHOOD VS. BUREAUCRACY”
BY DAVID RHODES
Republished with permission from the May 2006 issue of Fire Engineering
[CR: This is a wonderful study of the ideas in my previous post, Resilient Structures, and in John Robb's work on resilience on his blog, Global Guerrillas. It demonstrates how groups, with the proper preparation and under the right [...]
[Note; links to Boyd's presentations go to the John Boyd Compendium page on DNI, where all of Boyd's work is available free of charge in a variety of formats.]
After a while, human organizations seem to deteriorate. Often the individuals in them will be busy, spending long hours going to meetings, producing PowerPoints, [...]