How to manage creative talent and lessons for DoD
Here’s an interesting conversation with Disney CEO Robert Iger on the a16z podcast: Alan Horn was the kind of studio executive that knew how to […]
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Founder vs. Inheritance and other deep problems of DoD innovation
Here are some slices from an epic podcast with Balaji Srinivasan and Lex Fridman: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA. The US […]
Has the bureaucratization of knowledge made government less effective?
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 […]
Does DoD turn out good product managers?
You mentioned intuition and I think that can be developed too believe it or not. I’ve helped many product managers develop their product sense. How […]
Permissionless innovation and the graveyard of things never created
There is another reason for decentralization. That reason is what’s called permissionless innovation. If censorship is the thing you saw that now goes away, permissionless […]
Take-aways from the updated DoD Directive 5000.01
Overall, DoDD 5000.01 went from 10 pages to 16, though two of those are for a table of contents. In terms of word count, it […]
If you try to maintain initial trust by covering up mistakes, then you lose trust when they catch you
Harry: You say: “If soldiers trust the general, communication will be vastly more efficient.” What are your biggest lessons on how to create an environment […]
Army acquisition and the Goldwater-Nichols Act
In 1986, the President’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management (Packard Commission) published A Quest for Excellence, Final Report to the President. Subsequently, National Security […]
Packard on workforce training
In most cases, it still is necessary for a project manager to get a decision by making his recommendations through several layers of hierarchy in […]
A discussion on program office organization
Following up on the podcast, here’s a bonus Q&A with the gracious Victor Deal: Eric: During the podcast, you said: “There’s this sense that perhaps […]