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Has the bureaucratization of knowledge made government less effective?

October 26, 2022 Eric Lofgren 1

Here’s an excerpt from Tyler Cowen’s conversation with Walter Russell Mead on American Foreign Policy. Tyler asks whether the State Department or the CIA understand […]

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Stanley McCrystal on risk taking and military leadership

October 26, 2021 Eric Lofgren 0

Here’s one of the two factors that Stanley McCrystal finds important in a military leader: … the ability to make a decision with uncertainty. I’ve […]

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What can we learn from Eric Schmidt and apply to defense acquisition?

November 9, 2018 Eric Lofgren 2

Xerox PARC came out of a similar structure [as Bell Labs]. Xerox at the time was a structural monopoly and not a legal one because […]

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