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Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a nation's war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a "Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense initiatives more successful? Can such an application of science be successful? Is a militarized space inevitable, necessary or impossible?

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lchic - 06:54am Jun 6, 2003 EST (# 12342 of 12352)
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The Architect

http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/d/durer/2/11/3/02archit.html

lchic - 07:01am Jun 6, 2003 EST (# 12343 of 12352)
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iceberg - the tip of the iceberg is just the beginning, approximately seven-eighths of an iceberg lies under the surface of the ocean.

- see (only) cool picture

http://processcoaching.com/iceberg.html

rshow55 - 07:15am Jun 6, 2003 EST (# 12344 of 12352)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

In the June 10, 2002 edition of The New Yorker , which I read on a very interesting trip to Cornell University - where I met for the first time many people who'd been in the Cornell 6-Year Ph.D. Program, there was an excellent and long piece on the New York Times :

Annals of Communication THE HOWELL DOCTRINE The Times new top editor has big plans for the paper. Not everyone is ready to go along. by Ken Auletta

The piece includes a section titled A Week In September that begins with this:

"The Raines era began on September 5, 2001. When Raines arrived at his office, in the northeast corner of the newsroom, his favorite image was already on the wall behind his desk. Taken by a Times photographer, George Tames, it is a sequence containing seven black--and-white photographs of Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson cajoling Senator Theodore F. Green, of Rhode Island. In each succeeding frame, L.B.J. shrinks his colleagues space until Green is bent backward over his desk, and L.B.J. is hovering just inches from his face. Implicitly, these photographs suggest how Raines intends to bend the Times to his will.

So far as I knew, http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/d/durer/2/11/3/02archit.html was Eisenhower's favorite drawing. It was the one he pointed out to me. Eisenhower had a more complex , articulated, and technocratic view of leadership than LBJ.

rshow55 - 07:20am Jun 6, 2003 EST (# 12345 of 12352)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

Dominance, and various kinds of intimidation, are primorial - effective motivators - and forms of communication.

They are indispensible - and especially so under circumstances of great pressure - where it is "do or die" and the speed and force of execution are paramount. Lots of fights are like that (though many of the more complex ones are much too treacherous to be won at such a simple level.)

Intimidation - "pulling rank" - force are indispensible. Everybody knows it. But they inhibit more complex kinds of communication and growth.

http://processcoaching.com/iceberg.html

So you have to "turn them on and off."

It helps when that can be done gracefully, in ways that the people involved understand and think fitting.

lchic - 07:56am Jun 6, 2003 EST (# 12346 of 12352)
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Change-Management Models

http://www.change-management.com/tutorial-adkar-overview.htm http://www.change-management.com/change-management-toolkit.htm http://www.prosci.com/market.htm

lchic - 08:08am Jun 6, 2003 EST (# 12347 of 12352)
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Maslow's Hierarchy: Applications for the Workplace

http://academic.emporia.edu/smithwil/00fallmg443/eja/tuel.html

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