“Webb, What’s going on in the world?” Sounds like an innocent question, right? Not when it’s your first summer at West Point and the person asking is your Squad Leader. That simple question is code for: “Summarize for me an article from the front page of today’s New York Times.” My response should have started […]
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600 years before the Roman Empire ruled from the moors of Britain to the sands of Egypt, it’s predecessor, the Roman Republic, was almost destroyed. In 458 B.C. The neighboring Aequians attacked Rome—and the army sent to defend the fledgling city-state quickly found itself surrounded. The city panicked. The Senate decided to appoint a strong leader with absolute power—a dictator—for a
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As companies grow, complexity and bureaucracy grow as well. As bureaucracy grows, agility, responsiveness and vitality decrease. It’s an old story we’ve seen repeated many times—but the companies that are booming in this new economy have found a way off this ride. They’ve uncovered—and exploited—a flaw in the premise that the only way to regulate
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I was 21 years old the first time I handed my passport to an armed guard at a checkpoint and entered what the UN calls an Occupied Territory. It was the summer of ’95 and I was driving into the Gaza Strip. Over the next few weeks, oppression and I became good friends. Old Kahlid,
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I have often thought the best way to define a man’s character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: ”This is the
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