*Note: This essay was originally published on the Modern War Institute’s Commentary & Analysis site The world’s in crisis, and it’s time for strategists to earn their paychecks. It’s long been well-known that shifts and shocks produce opportunities that never would have existed otherwise. In car racing, this notion is reflected in the adage that…
*On Monday night, February 17, 2020, I spoke at a gathering of business, public, and non-profit leaders in Wellington, New Zealand. It was called the “Strategy Forge,” and I was honored to be the first to speak in the series. The host – a design firm called We Create Futures – maintains a website dedicated…
*Note: This essay was originally published on the Modern War Institute’s Commentary & Analysis site. Strategists evolve, shaped by the times they live in, prisoners of the problems of the day. And so, just as warfare constantly changes, so must strategists. So what will mold future strategists?
*Note: This essay was originally published on the Modern War Institute’s Commentary & Analysis site. Smartphones: the strategist’s most insidious insider threat. Strategists are knowledge workers; attention is their scarce, sparse, spendable resource. Smartphones, and other mobile, ever-present, internet-linked devices, hijack human attention at the speed of “click.” These performance-degrading, digital dealers of info-dopamine consume…