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Immersion

Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong. – H.L. Mencken, 1917

In business school, kudos went to the student who first figured out what the hell the case really was all about. It was all about being incisive, smart, able [...]

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Obama and the war on....?

“I much prefer talking with someone who is interested in understanding the situation and responding to it appropriately,”

John Brennan, president Obama’s counterterrorism advisor

In a lengthy article in the New York Times, Peter Baker reviewed the Obama approach to the war on terrorism, and especially as a continuation of Bush’s war.

Much has been said [...]

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What do you mean: TAMING a problem?

Several smart thinkers in this field have attempted to categorize problems along a continuum where, say, a math problem is on one end, and wicked problems on the other. In the middle are problems that may be tough, but can be solved with known, conventional means. Wicked problems are in a category of their own, [...]

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