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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 1

Steve Blank

New adversaries like ISIS in Iraq created the need for a new doctrine i.e. the 2006 Counterinsurgency Field Manual 3-24. Time will tell whether the existing acquisition bureaucracy beats this down or if it truly can sustain a breakout from traditional contracting and gets embraced by visionary leadership.) Slides 47 and 52.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 1 – Ash Carter

Steve Blank

New adversaries like ISIS in Iraq created the need for a new doctrine i.e. the 2006 Counterinsurgency Field Manual 3-24. Time will tell whether the existing acquisition bureaucracy beats this down or if it truly can sustain a breakout from traditional contracting and gets embraced by visionary leadership.) Slides 47 and 52.

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How “False Expertise” Can Damage Your Business—and How to Protect It

ConversionXL

Thorndike first demonstrated the Halo Effect in the military by showing the high correlation among soldiers’ ratings for physique, intelligence, leadership, and character. The result of these vulnerabilities is that we hire the wrong candidates, listen to the wrong people, and fail to differentiate our businesses. He cites the U.S.

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

Steve Blank

Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. The result will be agency leadership creating new organizational structures that make innovation a continual process rather than an ad hoc series of heroic efforts. Newell ran the U.S.

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