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The BofA $136B Dynamite Stick
Peacetime CEO builds scalable, high-volume recruiting machines. Wartime CEO does that, but also builds HR organizations that can execute layoffs.
Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Marty Skovlund and coauthors’ Violence of Action: The Untold Stories of the 75th Ranger Regiment in the War on Terror (Skovlund 2014).
David Tucker • United States Special Operations Forces
Aaron Banks explains the origins of Special Forces in World War II experiences in From OSS to Green Berets: The Birth of Special Forces (Banks 1986).
David Tucker • United States Special Operations Forces
Second, I look at long-term trends as they affect the major protagonists on the world scene, the United States, the European Union, China, Japan, Russia, and the militant political Islam.
Vaclav Smil • Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years
... See moreAs the complexity of civilisation, the destructive scale of technology and crises, and the speed of crises all increase, there is no greater multi-trillion dollar bill lying on the street than this problem: how to get the most able people — who don’t provide 50% more value than average leaders but many orders of magnitude — into the highest leverag
