organizational transformation

4GW: A solution of the third kind

Solutions of the first kind… new things (i.e., robots, autonomous flying vehicles, software to help us understand and manipulate foreign societies). Solutions of the second kind… new ideas about tactics and strategy. Solutions of the third kind… new ways to shape our institutions – aka politics — usually by altering how they recruit, train, and …

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Recommended reading: transforming the Army, the hard way

ARMY magazine has posted part two of Donald Vandergriff’s (Major, US Army, retired) article about the Adaptive Leaders Course.  This describes one path to organizational transformation.  The difficult way, building from the foundation up — building something that outlasts all the hot intellectual fads, and can evolve over generations.  The senior Army leadership’s attention to Vandergriff is important good …

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