Modern security thinkers
There's a good list of modern military thinkers on Kotare's blog. For anyone trying to make sense of much of the stuff going on around the world this list is a good starting point.
Kate Carruthers
Why not give peace a chance?
During our busy lives it seems to me that we often let the chances for peace pass us by. And how does this happen?
It happens with our reactions to things, to events, to words and actions by other people. For example, the snappy response to a question asked when
Hope is not a strategy, so what are we going to do?
It was very interesting to watch the 2008 US election campaign with all its talk of hope.
Checking Wikipedia, a definition of Hope "is a belief in a positive outcome related to events and circumstances in one's life."
But hope is not a strategy by which
The changing marketing landscape ...
Marketing in the good old days:In the past marketers thought they were in control of their brand and their messages.
They had lots of resources and became expert at creating above the line and below the line campaigns that pushed their messages out to their consumers. In this world
Is it time for a new approach to management?
The traditional approaches to managing organizations have been optimized so much that there little improvement that can be made. At the same time there are huge changes in society and how people want and expect to work.
With the growth of collaboration technologies such as web 2.0 and entry
American burgers - now I get it!
For many years I have thought that American friends were delusional when they rhapsodised about their burgers.
After all I had eaten at McDonalds so I knew what an American burger was like.
However, at the urging of several friends I tried some
real
American burgers on a recent trip
How resilient is Australia?
Reading this book at the moment - Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects by Dmitry Orlov. It is very interesting to consider how Australia would manage.
Orlov considers America and its current situation in the light of a possible economic and social upheaval. He compares the American situation against