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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 3

Steve Blank

Dmitri Trenin, “ A Five-Year Outlook for Russian Foreign Policy: Demands, Drivers, and Influences ” Carnegie Moscow Center , 2016. North Korea/Iran/Non-Nation States. North Korea has robust and expanding nuclear weapons program with 10-40 nuclear weapons. Slides 20-22.

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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

In the 21st century you need a scorecard to keep track of the threats: Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, ISIS in Yemen/Libya/Philippines, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, hackers for hire, etc. The problem is they don’t know how to be innovative in peacetime when innovation succumbs to the daily demands of execution.

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The Interview, Censorship, Terrorism, Dr. Evil, and Lots of Other Stuff

Feld Thoughts

North Korea says huh, what, wait, it wasn’t us and seeks a joint probe with US on Sony hack (yeah – like that is going to happen.) Let’s start with the FBI’s Update on Sony Investigation followed by Obama Vow[ing] a Response to Cyberattack on Sony. Now it starts getting really interesting.

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What Every Bitcoin Investor Should Learn From a Dictator Named “Awesome”

Austin Startup

When he heard that Kublai was just printing his own money, he saw his path to riches and summoned the Ambassador from Kublai’s court, demanding to see the new paper currency. He demanded that everyone accept these new notes as currency. So smitten with this idea, Awesome copied the idea and printed his own money.

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Pyongyang, Vonnegut, and Depression

Feld Thoughts

North Korea has been on my mind lately (fathom that), although I had bought this book a few years ago after Eric Schmidt’s trip to in North Korea. In addition to being a delightful writer, Vonnegut was an in-demand and excellent public speaker. I started with Architectural and Cultural Guide Pyongyang.

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Your No Fear Career

YoungUpstarts

There are demanding clients, bosses who bully, conniving coworkers, and people who play politics. But how do we have faith in our company and in ourselves when demands are coming at us so fast and the future seems so uncertain? I’m not talking about jumping out of airplanes or crossing the border into North Korea.

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Watch Out for Seven Traits Of A Dominant Visionary

YoungUpstarts

Demanding work environments and brilliant CEOs go hand in hand. Hard-core leaders on a mission are compelled to achieve their goal and demand the highest level of performance. Elon Musk and Steve Jobs among others are famous for handing out monumental demands peppered with ferocious criticism if performance was not to their liking.