Sublime

Democracies flourish when the nation is at peace and the harvest is bountiful—as, historically, was the environment of the professions in the post-World War II era. However, when war is declared or the crops fail, even the most ardent democracy selects a government that will direct the troops and tell factories what to produce. The style, if not th

In 2004, US Army chief of staff Peter Schoomaker said, “I’ve thought for years the Army needed to transform its personnel system.”29 The Wardynski team published more than a half dozen monographs in their Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) series that took apart the HR system brick by brick and urged the army to transform “from an almost feudal empl

It is likely instructive at this point to be clearer about how exactly Ostrom defines a common pool resource, and how she distinguishes it from a “public good.” She writes, The relatively high costs of physically excluding joint appropriators from the resource or from improvements made to the resource system are similar to the high costs of excludi

Clausewitz himself proposed that war could best be compared with commerce, since both are social conflicts of human interests and activities.

Another managing partner, well informed about a variety of professions, observes that “professional service firms are managed in one of two ways: badly or not at all.”