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18 May 09

Are We Developing a "Different Kind" of Leaders?

  • Dempsey, the commander of U.S. Training and Doctine Command (TRADOC), went on to say that the "complexity on the battlefield that, in turn, requires a different kind of leadership and a decentralized command structure that pushes down decision-making authority to more junior leaders."
  • “We must prepare leaders for the shifting balance of operational and tactical art due to complexity and decentralization [on the battlefield],” Dempsey said. “As the operational environment becomes more complex, commanders at much-lower echelons of command must gain an appreciation of the operational art.”
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22 Apr 09

Map of Complexity Science

An interactive "Map of Complexity Science" created by the Art and Science Factory.

www.art-sciencefactory.com/complexity-map_feb09.html - Preview

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27 Feb 09

Critical systems thinking

I recently came across a reference to "Critical Systems Thinking" in a blog comment by a professor at the Army's Command and General Staff College. Having not heard the term before, I looked it up. Here's a link to the Wikipedia entry about CST. Definitely interesting and worth some more reading.

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08 Aug 07

Danger Room - Wired Blogs

  • Critics of this work, however, say that human interactions are way too complicated to predict and relying on models is delusional.



    “They are smoking something they shouldn't be," retired Lieutenant General Paul Van Riper told Science Magazine recently about such work. "Only those who don’t know how the real world works will be suckers for this stuff.”

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